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Contra la aridez. Esbozo polémico

Daimon, 2013
«Against Dryness», en: Existentialists and Mystics. Writings on Philosophy and Literature, Nuev York-Londres, Penguin, 1999, pp. 287-295. Originariamente publicado en Encounter, Enero 1961, pp. 16-20.
Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch et les écueils de la fiction éthique

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2008
This article attempts a parallel study of Iris Murdoch’s philosophical and fictional texts so as to emphasize the « ethics of reading » that is part of her writing agenda.
Camille Fort
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From Inattentiveness Towards Moral Failures: Acknowledging Simone Weil in Iris Murdoch’s Literary Writings

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
Simone Weil's ideas proved fundamental for Iris Murdoch, opening up a difficult path of thought for one rooted in the British philosophical tradition in the 1950s (Sim 1985, Bok 2005, Lovibond 2011a, Panizza 2022a, Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman 2022 ...
Camille Braune
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 43-59, April 2026.
Georgie Newson
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Mopping the Floors or Putting a Man on the Moon? Self‐Narrative and the Scope of Individual Moral Responsibility for Collective Actions

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 321-332, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Much of what we do, we do together. This raises the question of what moral responsibility individuals have for collective actions. Recent discussions have largely ignored the psychology of participants in collective behavior. Some people act through their collective as if it were a tool; some see themselves as mere cogs in a machine; others ...
Samuel A. Mortimer
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‘Listening at the threshold’ – ’n Lesing van godsdiens in ’n paar uittreksels uit drie van Iris Murdoch se boek romans: Henry and Cato, Nuns and soldiers and The unicorn

Literator, 2013
Hierdie artikel het die godsdienstige aspekte van drie van Iris Murdoch se romans binne die raamwerk van ’n Christelike leesteorie ontleed. Die artikel het die gebruik van die Christelike leesteorie verdedig eerder as teorieë wat dekonstruksie ...
Stella Prozesky
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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 421-437, October 2025.
Abstract This essay focuses on Iris Murdoch's final book of philosophy, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, and Anton Chekhov's final and greatest play, Three Sisters. The essay uses Murdoch's ideas to present a new reading of Three Sisters as a working‐out of a metaphysics by which people find the breaks, the limits, of their pictures of the world and ...
Ross Collin
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Iris Murdoch, or What It Means To Be A Serious Philosopher

Daimon, 2013
The last few years have seen a growing interest in the philosophical work of Iris Murdoch. Where the interest in her literary work started early in her career, with the first monograph published in 1965, the first monograph on her philosophical work did
Marije Altorf
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Swamped: On Depression and Vision

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 415-423, September 2025.
ABSTRACT “Swamped” cracks open my experience of depression by exploring how a specific place—a swamp—acted on me to bring social and emotional injuries, but also modes of seeing that ultimately moved me out of the depression, to the fore. In writing from this specific place, I build on moments in which something—a desire for beauty, the luminosity of ...
Petra Rethmann
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Iris Murdoch’s The Bell: Tragedy, Love, and Religion [PDF]

Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008
The novel begins as follows:"Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return to him for the same reason.
Kenneth Masong
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