Iris Murdoch and the Political

Prof Gary Browning (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284498-9 (ISBN)

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Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say that she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, this book argues the contrary. Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, just as she did in literature and philosophy. She saw historical experience as the foundation upon which the inter-linked activities of literature, philosophy and politics are based. In reading Murdoch we get a clear insight into the nature of the modern political world. From an early political radicalism to a later anti-utopianism, Murdoch reacted to the great political events of the twentieth century, notably the Holocaust, the rise and fall of ideologies, sexual repression, and the realities of totalitarianism. Her political philosophy conceptualized relations between moral and political spheres, and her novels deal imaginatively with questions of migration, refugees, sexuality and freedom. Her letters and journals provide moment to moment reactions to major political events.

Iris Murdoch and the Political presents a lively discussion of Iris Murdoch and her political thought, taking in the nature of socialist thought, the New Left and liberalism in the UK in the latter part of the twentieth century. The book is based upon a wide variety of sources, including Murdoch's journals, letters, reviews, essays, novels and books. It draws upon scholarship in philosophy, literature and intellectual history in developing a coherent sense of how Murdoch theorized the political.

Gary Browning has worked at Oxford Brookes University since 1997, first as a Lecturer and then a Professor. He was Associate Dean, 2010-20,, set up a series of Think Human Festivals, performing stand-up at the first and staging an event on Iris Murdoch and Listening in 2020. He was a member of the Executive of the Political Studies Association 1999-2005, editor of the journals, Politics and Contemporary Political Theory between 2000 and 2015, served as a member of the Council of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 1997-2020, co-organized the Oxford Conference for Political Thought for BIAPT 2015-2022, and was a member of the REF Panel of the UK, 2020. He has published 16 books, and over 70 articles and essays on major thinkers and thinkers in political thought.

1: Iris Murdoch and the Political
2: Iris Murdoch: Radical Politics from the 1930s to the 1960s
3: The Later Politics
4: The Plays: Enacting the Political
5: Socialism, Community, and Limiting Leviathan
6: Outsiders: Migrants, the Displaced, Refugees, and the Holocaust
7: Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Feminism
8: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	492 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-284498-9 / 0192844989
ISBN-13	978-0-19-284498-9 / 9780192844989
Zustand	Neuware