{"product_id":"language-lost-and-found-on-iris-murdoch-and-the-limits-of-philosophical-discourse-9781501306815","title":"Language Lost and Found On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNiklas Forsberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has previously written on Wittgenstein, Cavell, Murdoch, Austin and Derrida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating book offers a valuable explication of Murdoch's relentless attempts to reveal what is missing in contemporary moral philosophy and culture.  Greatly influenced by Kierkgaard, Wittgenstein, and Simone Weil, the complexity and messiness of ordinary life, and with one's deepest commitments-many of which cannot be accessed, or altered by means of arguments intended to defend philosophical \"positions.\"  Forsberg (Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden) makes excellent use of the work of Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Stephen Mulhall, who show how one might avoid the tendency of philosophers toward \"deflection\" from the \"difficulties of reality.\"  These are difficulties that people have when language fails in the face of experiences that refuse reduction to the abstraction of the clearly defined concepts sought after in philosophy--what Murdoch called its \"dryness.\"  Novelists like what it is like to struggle with the deeply confusing, distressing issues of the present without stepping aside from the emotional intensity of the encounters.  Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.-- -- S.A. Mason, Concordia University * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eA fair bang in the philosophy of literature ... Forsberg's addition to this scene is brilliant and necessary ... This [book] will reverberate. * British Journal of Aesthetics *\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the most philosophically sophisticated contributions to these interlinked issues that I have come across in the last decade; the care, charity and ease with which Forsberg contests and dismantles one of the most influential current readings of Murdoch (that advanced by Nussbaum) is enough on its own to make it clear that standards in this area have just been raised. -- Stephen Mulhall, Professor of Philosophy, New College, University of Oxford, UK\u003cbr\u003eCan we lose our moral concepts? Can our culture and our understanding of the human occlude the background that alone makes sense of the ideals we want to live by? Niklas Forsberg argues that this is a basic insight of Iris Murdoch’s philosophy. Moreover, this gives us the key to understanding the relation of Murdoch’s philosophical writings to her novels. The latter hold a mirror to our lives, in which we could potentially become aware of this loss. This book is full of philosophical insight, not only about contemporary moral thinking but also about the relation of literature to philosophical thought. -- Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, McGill University, Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    ix  Introduction    1  Chapter 1 Apparent Paradoxes 1.1 The Received View and its Complications    24 1.2 Approaching “The Black Prince”    36 1.3 Localizing Murdoch    52 1.4 A Fatty Pâté and a Plateful of Cherries: On Nussbaum (on Literature)    64 1.5. The Commonplaceness of the Approach    75 1.6 Preparatory Summary: The Appearance of Paradox    90  Chapter 2 How to Make a Mirror 2.1 Murdoch on Art and Literature and Love    94 2.2 What is a Mirror?    128 2.3 Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of Acknowledging Illusions of Sense    135 2.4 Kierkegaard and Grammatical Illusions    144 2.5 Mirroring Illusions: The Thought of the Indirect Communication    152 2.6 Inheriting Wittgenstein (and Kierkegaard)    161  Chapter 3 Sensing a Sense Lost 3.1 Loss of Concepts, Loss of Questions    191 3.2 Contrasting Pictures of the Human    215 3.3 Vision over Choice    230 3.4 Making Pictures (Perfectionism and Vision)    235  Chapter 4 Reading The Black Prince 4.1 “Murdoch’s Most Self-Consciously Platonic Kierkegaardian Love Story”    257 4.2 In the Context of Bradley Pearson’s Form of Life    269 4.3 Passing Verdict: Who did it?    302 4.4 In Disagreement with Oneself: A Failure to Mean    310  Chapter 5 What is it Like to Be a Corpse?  5.1 Introduction: Running Out of Arguments?    318 5.2 Costello’s Speechlessness and Diamond’s Concerns    321 5.3 The Exemplary Bat    334 5.4 Understanding Deflection    343 5.5 Concluding Remarks    355  Chapter 6 Smashing Mirrors, Collecting the Pieces, Returning Our Words 6.1 The Concept of a Concept and the Loss of Concepts    358 6.2 Smashing Mirrors, Returning to the Ordinary    371 6.3 Literature, Distance and the Return of Our Words    376   Bibliography    389","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863332520279,"sku":"9781501306815","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501306815.jpg?v=1759920317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/language-lost-and-found-on-iris-murdoch-and-the-limits-of-philosophical-discourse-9781501306815","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}