"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in live is to find reality."
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#LibroRecomendado: ‘Bajo la red (1954) de Iris Murdoch’.

Me encantó esta novela, original, aguda, ágil, divertida. Una narración en primera persona sobre un joven en una búsqueda picaresca del amor y la amistad, con una buena dosis de filosofía añadida en buena medida. El protagonista, Jake Donaghue es un escritor y traductor con una vida bohemia. Una serie de malentendidos es lo que parece que marca su pauta de actuación. Parece una comedia de enredo, pero bajo una trama cómica que parece ligera se plantea una reflexión profunda e interesante. Jake Donaghue me recuerda un poco a Holden Caulfield de El guardián entre el centeno. Los dos son personajes alejados de la realidad que les rodea, y con los dos recorremos de forma un tanto caótica sus respectivas ciudades; Jake en Londres y Holden en Nueva York. La novela de Salinger se publicó en 1951, la de Murdoch en 1954, pero no creo que haya habido ninguna influencia, al menos conscientemente. Bajo la red está dedicado a Raymond Queneau. Cuando Donaghue deja el piso de Madge, dos de los libros que se lleva consigo son Murphy, de Samuel Beckett, y Pierrot mon ami, de Queneau.
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The Booker prize has a new name and the one I voted for won! It will be called Iris after #IrisMurdoch 😁 https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-trophy-now-has-a-name-and-its-iris

Four female philosophers (Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Elizabeth Anscombe) who swam against the tide

Review by Rachel Handley in #TLS of "Metaphysical Animals: How four women brought philosophy back to life"

https://the-tls.co.uk/articles/metaphysical-animals-clare-mac-cumhaill-rachael-wiseman-review-rachel-handley/?fbclid=IwAR3an1ULPSnJdJrTlnqqgq0CsDTwOCMa49RN6k238fh7xsAUo68gWZLOC-A

#philosophy #female #IrisMurdoch

"I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

#IrisMurdoch in the novel "The Red and the Green" set in the Ireland of 1916, and of which Damien Kiberd says, “beneath the surface traditionalism…the modern world struggles to be born.”

A post on the philosophy of the novel: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/02/08/murdoch-being-irish/

#IrishPhilosophy

#irismurdoch #writing #writingcommunity

RT Miles Leeson on Twitter

New #IrisMurdoch Podcast! I'm joined by Megan Laverty from Columbia Teachers College and Evgenia Mylonaki from UPATRAS to discuss #MetaphysicsAsAGuidetoMorals.

https://soundcloud.com/user-548804258/metaphysics-as-a-guide-to-morals-podcast-2

There's even a handout here! https://irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2023/02/09/35th-anniversary/

https://twitter.com/miles_leeson/status/1623709574728392706

#IrishPhilosophy

RT @fivebooks on Twitter
#IrisMurdoch died #OnThisDay in 1999. Miles Leeson, Director of the Iris Murdoch Centre at the University of Chichester, recommends what books to read from her canon of 27 novels. https://fivebooks.com/best-books/iris-murdoch-miles-leeson/

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1623316970639597570

RT Miles Leeson

Looking forward to being
@CarlowCollege in a month's time to discuss '#IrisMurdoch , Ireland, and the Supernatural.' The lecture is free and open to all on the evening of the 8th March.

https://mobile.twitter.com/miles_leeson/status/1623358519641604096

#IrishPhilosophy

RT Miles Leeson

Looking forward to being
@CarlowCollege in a month's time to discuss '#IrisMurdoch , Ireland, and the Supernatural.' The lecture is free and open to all on the evening of the 8th March.

https://mobile.twitter.com/miles_leeson/status/1623358519641604096

Iris Murdoch: the virtue of paying attention

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/07/15/murdoch-attention/

#IrisMurdoch #IrishPhilosophy

"For Murdoch, the most crucial moral virtue was a kind of attentiveness to detail, a wise, trained capacity for vision, which could see what was really going on in a situation and respond accordingly. The sort of psychological insight and attentiveness to detail necessary for writing fiction was also, for Murdoch, what enables a person to live a morally good life."

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/06/02/murdoch-narrative/

From a (sadly deleted) article on secular ethics in #Aeon.

#IrishPhilosophy #IrisMurdoch

8 Feb. Irish born novelist and philosopher, #IrisMurdoch, died #OTD 1999. She’s best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

"What her novels systematically embody is a theory about theories, a theory which is to some degree against all theory – including itself." https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/25/theory-about-theories/

She also wrote numerous philosophical essays.

DIB Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/murdoch-jean-iris-a6063

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

8 Feb. Irish born novelist and philosopher, #IrisMurdoch, died #OTD 1999. She’s best known for her novels about sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

"What her novels systematically embody is a theory about theories, a theory which is to some degree against all theory – including itself." https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/25/theory-about-theories/

She also wrote numerous philosophical essays.

DIB Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/murdoch-jean-iris-a6063

Late for the first of these, unfortunately.

Starting today! Three Tuesdays online conversation with @nytdavidbrooks on #IrisMurdoch 's "The Sovereignty of Good". Register here!
https://graham.uchicago.edu/events/iris-murdochs-sovereignty-good-02-07-2023

Think yourself better: 10 rules of #philosophy to live by

From Aristotle to #IrisMurdoch, and Kongzi to #OnoraONeill : what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/04/think-yourself-better-10-rules-of-philosophy-to-live-by

By Julian Baggini

Think yourself better: 10 rules of #philosophy to live by

From Aristotle to #IrisMurdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/04/think-yourself-better-10-rules-of-philosophy-to-live-by

By Julian Baggini

@TheWildGees I remembered reading this when it was published in 2019 and gives a fairly nuanced account of her love-hate relationship with Ireland, her roots, influence of parents, and how 'The Troubles' embittered her, and found her supporting not just Unionism but Paisley - becoming more unionist - more identified as British and more right wing in her later years. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/iris-murdoch-s-deep-but-twisted-irish-roots-1.3950148 - a not uncommon story and divided sense of identity #IrisMurdoch

@ryanpendell

I no longer feel qualified to recommend them. It's been a while since I reread Iris Murdoch's novels. The #nonconsensual #PowerDynamics (i.e., #dominant and #submissive) she apparently thought were fascinating and enjoyable are too much for me. However, your mileage may vary.

@bookstodon
#IrisMurdoch
#trope
#LiteraryTropes
#consent
#negotiation
#boundaries
#YMMV

"Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. The living and radical nature of language is something which we forget at our peril."

I like Iris Murdoch's novels but never read her non-fiction before. #reading #books #philosophy #ethics #language #IrisMurdoch