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Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse de Dr. Niklas Forsberg

Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse

Autor Dr. Niklas Forsberg
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Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguistic community and the roots of the thought that some philosophical problems arise due to our having lost the sense of our own language. But it is also a call for a radical reconsideration of how philosophy and literature relate to each other on a general level and in Murdoch's authorship in particular.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781623564834
ISBN-10: 1623564832
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 160 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Offers a coherent account of Murdoch's view of the relationship between philosophy and literature

Notă biografică

Niklas Forsberg is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has previously written on Wittgenstein, Cavell, Murdoch, Austin and Derrida.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Chapter 1Apparent Paradoxes1.1 The Received View and its Complications 241.2 Approaching "The Black Prince" 361.3 Localizing Murdoch 521.4 A Fatty Pâté and a Plateful of Cherries: On Nussbaum (on Literature) 641.5. The Commonplaceness of the Approach 751.6 Preparatory Summary: The Appearance of Paradox 90Chapter 2How to Make a Mirror2.1 Murdoch on Art and Literature and Love 942.2 What is a Mirror? 1282.3 Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of Acknowledging Illusions of Sense 1352.4 Kierkegaard and Grammatical Illusions 1442.5 Mirroring Illusions: The Thought of the Indirect Communication 1522.6 Inheriting Wittgenstein (and Kierkegaard) 161Chapter 3Sensing a Sense Lost3.1 Loss of Concepts, Loss of Questions 1913.2 Contrasting Pictures of the Human 2153.3 Vision over Choice 2303.4 Making Pictures (Perfectionism and Vision) 235Chapter 4Reading The Black Prince4.1 "Murdoch's Most Self-Consciously Platonic Kierkegaardian Love Story" 2574.2 In the Context of Bradley Pearson's Form of Life 2694.3 Passing Verdict: Who did it? 3024.4 In Disagreement with Oneself: A Failure to Mean 310Chapter 5What is it Like to Be a Corpse? 5.1 Introduction: Running Out of Arguments? 3185.2 Costello's Speechlessness and Diamond's Concerns 3215.3 The Exemplary Bat 3345.4 Understanding Deflection 3435.5 Concluding Remarks 355Chapter 6Smashing Mirrors, Collecting the Pieces, Returning Our Words6.1 The Concept of a Concept and the Loss of Concepts 3586.2 Smashing Mirrors, Returning to the Ordinary 3716.3 Literature, Distance and the Return of Our Words 376Bibliography 389

Recenzii

This 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.--
A fair bang in the philosophy of literature ... Forsberg's addition to this scene is brilliant and necessary ... This [book] will reverberate.
This 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.
Can 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.