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‘A Fearfully Complex Theological Concept’: Remorse, Repentance, and Salvation in A Word Child and The Book and the Brotherhood
This chapter engages with Murdoch’s contribution to the ‘turn to theology’ as her thinking on remorse participates in her neo-theology. Her perception that belief systems cannot be left out of an understanding...
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Remorse, Holocaust Studies, and Heidegger: The Message to the Planet, the Heidegger Manuscript, and Jackson’s Dilemma
This chapter shows Murdoch’s exploration simultaneously widening to encompass the overwhelming sense of guilt experienced in connection to the Holocaust and narrowing to concentration on the lack of remorse ev...
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Conclusion: Remorse as a Challenge to Be Met—Biography and Bibliotherapy
Murdoch’s peculiar insistence on remorse towards the end of her life suggests that it holds particular philosophical and personal significance for her. The question thus presents itself of what Murdoch was so ...
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Approaching Murdoch’s Early Philosophy
This chapter provides an overview of two major trends in the reception of Murdoch’s philosophical writings. According to the first, Murdoch’s style obscures the substance of her writing such that bringing her ...
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Behaviourism and Human Separateness
This chapter provides a brief overview of behaviourism in post-war philosophy of mind, focusing on its roots in verificationist and ordinary language strains of clarificatory philosophy. Murdoch is shown to ha...
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The Limits of Modern Moral Philosophy
This chapter provides an analysis of Murdoch’s responses to post-war British moral philosophy. It provides an overview of one major current, ethical non-naturalism, and its development from G. E. Moore’s Intui...
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A Prelude to The Sovereignty of Good?
This chapter considers the relationship between Iris Murdoch’s St. Anne’s writings and The Sovereignty of Good. Some scholars have argued that the earlier writings laid some important groundwork that Murdoch late...
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Introduction
The book’s core contention is that Nietzsche’s rhetoric circumscribes rather than expands the reader’s interpretive horizon. Contrary to the widespread view that Nietzsche’s aphoristic style is light, playful,...
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Revisiting the Racial Problem in the Johannine Prologue
This chapter demonstrates the necessity for a racial reading of John’s prologue. It introduces aspects of the prologue where it portrays otherness, difference, and the disruption of racial identity and race re...
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Nietzsche’s Rhetorical Arsenal
In this chapter, Nietzsche’s Daybreak account of the genealogy of morals—an often overlooked precursor to the later and better known On the Genealogy of Morals—is presented as a master class in the art of rhetori...
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Race and Representation
This chapter explores racial representation within Greco-Roman writers by drawing from the insights of Edward Said. It explores how the Persians, Egyptians, and Germans are portrayed by various writers, examin...
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From Malice to Magnanimity
This chapter reads Twilight of the Idols against Beyond Good and Evil to reveal a shift in tone from the vitriol of the earlier text to the good-natured, light-hearted chaffing of the later work, despite Twilight
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The Prologue and Kinship: A Latino Reading of the Johannine Family
This chapter examines from a Latino perspective the role of family and kinship in the prologue and gospel narrative. A Latinx understanding of the family is introduced as a paradigm for interpreting the family...
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The Prologue and Roman Conquest: Bartolomé de Las Casas and Roman Representation
This chapter reads the prologue as an anti-Roman story. By exploring the conquest of the Americas as narrated by Bartolomé de Las Casas and various Roman writers, a new interpretation of the prologue is propos...
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‘If Only’ and ‘Too Late’: Remorse, Philosophy, and Time in The Nice and the Good and The Philosopher’s Pupil
This chapter demonstrates Murdoch’s relevance to philosophical debate on the moral basis and ethical significance of remorse. The foundations of both her philosophy and remorse theory are a conception of absol...
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Remorse, Trauma Theory, and Primal Wounding: The Good Apprentice and The Green Knight
This chapter focuses on Murdoch’s Ur-text on lucid remorse, The Good Apprentice, which displays Weil’s analysis of the tendency for the afflicted to be shunned by the unafflicted, and on her penultimate novel, Th...
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Mystical Remorse: Saints and (Parenthetical) Heroes, and The One Alone
This chapter contemplates remorse in the context of transcendence and mysticism which form the background to Murdoch’s philosophy and art. The position of remorse as an ethical index in Murdoch’s thought is de...
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