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Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger Imaginations and Images
The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual...
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Camus' Literary Ethics Between Form and Content
This book seeks to establish the relevance of Albert Camus’ philosophy and literature to contemporary ethics. By examining Camus’ innovative methods...
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Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare
This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes toward the...
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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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Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work
Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery,...
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Murdoch on Truth and Love
This book reviews Iris Murdoch’s thought as a whole. It surveys the breadth of her thinking, taking account of her philosophical works, her novels...
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Politics of Benjamin’s Kafka: Philosophy as Renegade
This book provides a critical assessment of Benjamin’s writings on Franz Kafka and of Benjamin’s related writings. Eliciting from Benjamin’s writings...
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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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Tales of Research Misconduct A Lacanian Diagnostics of Integrity Challenges in Science Novels
This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven novels devoted to this issue, namely: Ar...
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Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture
This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public...
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Criticism after Critique Aesthetics, Literature, and the Political
Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological...
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The Rushdie Fatwa and After A Lesson to the Circumspect
This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the...
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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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Art and Life in Aestheticism De-Humanizing and Re-Humanizing Art, the Artist and the Artistic Receptor
Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this...
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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...