Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel

Why Literature Is Not Philosophy

AvLyra Ekström Lindbäck,James D. Reid

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two.Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel makes a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch’s philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy. This book differs by deepening Murdoch's insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally. Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature. Through a discussion of the illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the artifice of tragedy, and the ambiguous morality of artistic inspiration and experience, this study reveals literature as essentially other to philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-16
Mått:164 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350332911

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Lyra Ekström Lindbäck is a novelist and critic.

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Lyra Ekström Lindbäck is an award winning Swedish novelist. Her book, whose project is argued for with the conceptual clarity that is philosophical in orientation, seeks to establish why literature and philosophy need to be held apart. This is both an astounding and important work. Lindbäck has stepped outside the realm of the novel to establish the novel’s significance. Centred on the writings of Iris Murdoch she uncovers at the heart of Murdoch's works a literary undertaking which, while having a relation to philosophy, is nonetheless always distanced from it. Literature can present differing worlds precisely because it can maintain its distance from conceptual determination. To have such a book by a writer of the significance of Lindbäck is as important to philosophy as it will be to literature.

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Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. The Ancient Quarrel: A Background Story 2. What Is (Not) A Philosophical Novel? The Sensory Illusion of Sense 3. The Feel of Muddled Thinking: Conceptual content in literature following Kant’s aesthetics 4. Real Characters and Fictional People: Stanley Cavell and the Epistemology of Fiction 5. Problems Purged: The Consolations of Tragedy 6. Playing with Fire: The Immorality of Literature Concluding remarks Bibliography Index