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#cuadrodeldía Iris Murdoch, 1984-86 (Trevor Th. Phillips 1937-2022) #PortraitGallery Londres #art El británico retrata a la escritora y filósofa #IrisMurdoch La define como "una presencia luminosa, una bombilla eléctrica en ese rincón sombrío, disipando la oscuridad" #FelizSábado

Christopher Lovegrove Apr 15

‘I am a severed head such as primitive tribes and old alchemists used to use...'
I reviewed 'A Severed Head' by #IrisMurdoch for the #1961Club and #IrisMurdoch26
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Enmeshmemt: #1961Club

Etruscan sculpture from Pyrgi, ca 350 BC, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome. A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch. Penguin, 1963 (1961). ‘I am a severed head such as primitive tribes an…

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The Marginalian Apr 13

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/12/iris-murdoch-imagination/

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 10

1 Current read: Discognition by #SteveShaviro (so far, it’s excellent) 2 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes 3 TBD; probably Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by #JeffreyJKripal 4 Bruno’s Dream by #IrisMurdoch #books #BookSky

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James Jefferies Mar 27

Just put my abstract in for the 2026 international Iris Murdoch conference …

The railways of Iris Murdoch 🤩 #IrisMurdoch

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 15

“The #novelist #IrisMurdoch, whose lengthy, involved, brilliant #novels are probably the kind of thing most people don’t read any more, understood #attention better than most.” Well, I know some people who still read her. Otherwise this piece on our #attentiondeficit by #MarkKingwell is very good.

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Cheshire Mar 9

Moral Mysteries | The Point Magazine
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/moral-mysteries/
#IrisMurdoch

Moral Mysteries | The Point Magazine

“It is always a significant question to ask about any philosopher: what is he afraid of?” wrote Iris Murdoch in her slim work of moral philosophy, The Sovereignty of Good.

The Point Magazine

Draws_Shoots_And_Leaves Feb 26

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. #irismurdoch #artist #pixelfedart