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Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Metaphysics as a Guide to Moralswas Iris Murdoch’s major philosophical testament and a highly original and ambitious attempt to talk about our time....
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Schelling’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers...
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Philosophy and Oscar Wilde
This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde’s love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Over the past few decades, Oscar Wilde...
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Animals in the Writings of C. S. Lewis
This book examines C. S. Lewis’s writings about animals, and the theological bases of his opposition to vivisection and other cruelties. It argues...
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Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain Meaning for Modernity
A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from...
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Iris Murdoch and Morality
Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current...
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Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries Cultural Transmission in Early Modern England
Ranging from Jonson to Rochester and including several critically neglected figures, select poetic contemporaries variously illuminate the scope of...
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Iris Murdoch A Reassessment
This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and...
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Coleridge and the Crisis of Reason
This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the...
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The Work of the Sun Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760–1860
At the end of the Eighteenth century, British writers began to celebrate work in a strangely indirect way. Instead of describing diligence as an...
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Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape...
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The Raymond Tallis Reader
The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial thinker. Key selections...
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Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science
Can religious belief survive in a scientific era? Aldous Huxley thought so. His early recognition of the profound significance of twentieth-century...
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