Iris Murdoch and the Moral Imagination

M.F. Simone Roberts is an independent scholar with an interdisciplinary doctorate in poetics and feminist philosophy. She is an assistant editor at large for Common Knowledge and has published in a variety of journals. Her study of Luce Irigaray is forthcoming. Alison Scott-Baumann is a reader emeritus in cultural hermeneutics at the University of Gloucestershire and a member of the Conseil Scientifique at the Fonds Ricoeur in Paris. Her study of Ricoeur was published in 2009.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Cheerful and Encouraging Element in a Confusing SceneM.F. SIMONE ROBERTS and ALISON SCOTT-BAUMANN      1—Two Women in Dark TimesFRANCES WHITE      2—A Third Sense of Ethics Between Fiction and PhilosophyAMY SMITH      3—Narrative and Symbolic Layering in The UnicornJUDIT VARGA      4—Morality, Visual Arts, and Rembrandt in Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net and Zadie Smith’s On BeautyANNE ROWE      5—Enchantment, Transformation, and Rebirth in The Green KnightSHARON R. WILSON      6—Messy Is Flourishing Is SublimeM.F. SIMONE ROBERTS      7—Domination, Resistance, and Anglo-Irish Landlordism in The Servants and the SnowWEI H. KAO      8—Nausea Under theALISON SCOTT-BAUMANN      9—Suffering and ContentmentTONY MILLIGAN      10—A Subterranean Dialogue with Nietzsche on the Demonic and Divine in The Sea, the SeaPETER MATHEWS      11—Naturalism and the GoodJOHN HACKER-WRIGHT      12—Morality in a World WithoutMILES LEESON      Conclusion: A Meditation in SwervesLUISA MURARO      Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index