Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch''s work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two.

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel makes a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch''s philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophic...