Iris Murdoch and the political

• Verfasst von: Browning, Gary K. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Iris Murdoch and the political
• Verf.angabe: Gary Browning
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online : Political Science
• ISBN: 978-0-19-193734-7
• DOI: doi:10.1093/9780191937347.001.0001
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe
• Sach-SW: Literature
• Sach-SW: Literature: history & criticism
• K10plus-PPN: 1897426097
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, just as she did in literature and philosophy. She saw historical experience as the foundation upon which the inter-linked activities of literature, philosophy and politics are based. From an early political radicalism to a later anti-utopianism, Murdoch reacted to the great political events of the 20th century, notably the Holocaust, the rise and fall of ideologies, sexual repression, and the realities of totalitarianism. Her political philosophy conceptualized relations between moral and political spheres, and her novels deal imaginatively with questions of migration, refugees, sexuality and freedom. This book presents a lively discussion of Iris Murdoch and her political thought, taking in the nature of socialist thought, the New Left and liberalism in the UK in the latter part of the 20th century.