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James JefferiesHooray - latest episode of the #IrisMurdoch podcast is out - featuring me! https://soundcloud.com/user-548804258/iris-murdochs-world-cup
If you don't have a Soundcloud account, you should be able to find it on all your usual podcast apps.
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
Sonja SchulteThis 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
goldenageTwo 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
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/
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
Pepa Montero#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‘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
I reviewed 'A Severed Head' by #IrisMurdoch for the #1961Club and #IrisMurdoch26
#Bookstodon
https://wp.me/sezD85-tsh
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 🇨🇦🇺🇦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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