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Hooray - latest episode of the #IrisMurdoch podcast is out - featuring me! https://soundcloud.com/user-548804258/iris-murdochs-world-cup

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Iris Murdoch's World Cup Podcast

In this episode Miles and his guests kick-off a fantasy world cup featuring all of Murdoch's novels. Murdoch’s novels will be separated into seven groups – we’ve added in the short story ‘Something S

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Sonja Schulte Apr 30

This was one of her crazy absurd farces, by the way. Meant to be 'dark' but so much gothic that it turned funny, most of the time meant so I'm sure, but not always. Still I enjoyed myself. That was because of the perspective she chose: a bunch of crazy acting family members, entangled in affairs and jealousy, are discribed by a very naive and 'good' sort of narrator, a visitor, who stumbles in, then becomes part of the trainwreck. She has mercy with their endings. #bookstodon #IrisMurdoch

goldenage Apr 30

Two women who understood that the deepest failures of human life are not failures of will. Clarice Lispector and Iris Murdoch

https://medium.com/the-poets-corner/as-thin-as-a-slice-of-light-187d25585ac0

#poetry #villanelle #Irismurdoch #claricelispector

The Marginalian [Unofficial]Apr 28

An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection and How to Be More Unselfish

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/28/iris-murdoch-unselfing/

goldenage Apr 27

In my latest paper, I develop a comparative study of Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy through the lens of phenomenology, Platonic ethics, and critiques of modern selfhood. The essay argues that morality begins in perception, where clear vision becomes the foundation of justice and love.

Published on Research Gate:
https://lnkd.in/df3gSXva

The third in the series of papers comparing seemingly opposite philosopical streams.

#philosophy #irismurdoch #edmundhusserl #simoneweil #reductionism

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Pepa Montero Apr 25

#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
#Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-tsh

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 [Unofficial]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/