(RNS) — The celebrated British novelist Iris Murdoch, who would have turned ... “Even if he attacks (his society)” Murdoch comments, “his thought still moves within it like a fish in ...

This blunt claim from the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch is characteristic ... In 19th-century novels, Murdoch argued, even the rebels can take society for granted. The individualists ...

Smith: “At the heart of Iris Murdoch’s moral vision is what she ... That same year, she won the Royal Society Literary Award. Her novels were often sprawling affairs, full of multiple ...

The moral and political frameworks of the novels—their ideas of what society is and how people ... the novels of Iris Murdoch. Murdoch, an Irish-British novelist and philosopher whose career ...

Her presentation, part of the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society's spring season, is titled "Learning to Look: Lessons from Iris Murdoch on Moral Growth." It is free and open to the public.

Dame Iris Murdoch was a novelist ... migrants and the difficulties that they experience in coming to an alien society. "She also, at the very end of her life, had a strong interest in ...

The honest answer is probably The Bell by Iris Murdoch. I was horrified by meeting Dame Iris at a student dining society and having to admit (to her kind relief) that I had read nothing she’d ...

Iris Murdoch presents as a central or working case ... oneself and the transformation of one’s own conduct as well as of society as a whole always go together. Hence, a transformation which ...

Iris Murdoch, who was born 100 years ago on unfashionable ... While Rene described her father on her marriage certificate as a solicitor, the Law Society in Dublin has no record of him and he ...

Charles knows he will never see her again. In 2006 I finally made it to the Iris Murdoch Society, which was founded in 1986. I went to Kingston University in London for the biennial Iris Murdoch ...

"Yes, I’m afraid I do rather dig diffused eroticisms that last forever,” Iris Murdoch wrote to the novelist ... (“we’ve got to reorganise society from top to bottom – it’s rotten ...