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100 1 a| Ekström Lindbäck, Lyra,d| 1990-e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjxxKRtcMkhGhwmfwBwYP=| ^A1472594;

245 10 a| Iris Murdoch and the ancient quarrel :b| why literature is not philosophy /c| Lyra Ekström Lindbäck.;

264 1 a| London ;a| New York :b| Bloomsbury Academic,c| 2024.;

300 a| xii, 223 pages ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Bloomsbury studies in philosophy and poetry;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.;

505 0 a| The ancient quarrel : a background story -- What is (not) a philosophical novel? The sensory illusion of sense -- The feel of muddled thinking : conceptual content in literature following Kant's aesthetics -- Real characters and fictional people : Stanley Cavell and the epistemology of fiction -- Problems purged : the consolations of tragedy -- Playing with fire : the immorality of literature -- Concluding remarks.;

520 a| "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 philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy. This book differs by deepening Murdoch's insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally. Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature. Through a discussion of the illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the artifice of tragedy, and the ambiguous morality of artistic inspiration and experience, this study reveals literature as essentially other to philosophy"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Iris Murdoch and the ancient quarrel : why literature is not philosophy / Lyra Ekström Lindbäck.

Author/creator	Ekström Lindbäck, Lyra, 1990- author.
Format	Book
Publication	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Copyright Date	©2024
Description	xii, 223 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Murdoch, Iris--Criticism and interpretation. Murdoch, Iris--Philosophy. Philosophy in literature.

Series	Bloomsbury studies in philosophy and poetry Bloomsbury studies in philosophy and poetry. ^A1471376
Contents	The ancient quarrel : a background story -- What is (not) a philosophical novel? The sensory illusion of sense -- The feel of muddled thinking : conceptual content in literature following Kant's aesthetics -- Real characters and fictional people : Stanley Cavell and the epistemology of fiction -- Problems purged : the consolations of tragedy -- Playing with fire : the immorality of literature -- Concluding remarks.
Abstract	"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 philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy. This book differs by deepening Murdoch's insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally. Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature. Through a discussion of the illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the artifice of tragedy, and the ambiguous morality of artistic inspiration and experience, this study reveals literature as essentially other to philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.
ISBN	9781350332911
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