Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on References and Abbreviations Preface; P.J.Conradi Introduction: 'A Large Hall of Reflection'; A.Rowe PART 1: REINSTATING THEOLOGY Reconsidering Murdoch's Moral Philosophy and Theology; M.Antonaccio 'All the World Must be Religious': Iris Murdoch's Ontological Arguments; S.Mulhall Iris Murdoch's Deconstructive Theology; S.Ramanathan PART 2: RECONSIDERING MORAL PHILOSOPHY Murdoch on the Impossibility of Moral Scepticism; E.Brugmans The Ethics of Self-Concern; S.Vice Virtue, Ethics, Self-Regard and The Sovereignty of Good; C.Mole PART 3: REVISITING 'THE SAINT AND THE ARTIST' The Ascetic Impulse in Iris Murdoch's Thought or The Saint and The Artist Revisited; M.Antonaccio The Curse of The Bell : The Ethics and Aesthetics of Narrative; B.Nicol PART 4: RE-READING LITERATURE Saint Iris? Murdoch and the Modern Literary Canon; N.Turner Houses of Fiction: Iris Murdoch and Henry James; P.Martin Accepting the 'Other': Iris Murdoch and Carol Shields; A.Ramon 'Policemen in Search of a Team': Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince and Ian McEwan's Atonement; A.Rowe PART 5: RENEGOTIATING GENDER, SEXUALITY AND FEMINISM Plato, Foucault and Beyond: Ethics, Beauty and Bisexuality in The Good Apprentice; T.Grimshaw Michele Le Doeuff and the Philosophical Imaginary; M.Altorf PART 6: REINVESTIGATING NEGATIVE CAPABILITY Iris Murdoch, Freud and Negative Capability; P.J.Conradi Alzheimer's Amyloid Analogy: Disease Depicted Through A Word Child; R.Isaacson Index