Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Philosophy and Its Imagery
3. Literature, Character, and Philosophy
4. Imagination
5. Morality, Religion, and the Ontological Proof
Coda: Women and Philosophy
Notes
Bibliography
An important new monograph offering a novel reading of the philosophy of Iris Murdoch.
Marije Altorf is Lecturer and Programme Director of Philosophy at
St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.
"A welcome addition to the growing secondary literature on the
philosophical writings of Iris Murdoch." -Sabina Lovibond,
Religious Studies, Vol. 45, 2009
Reviewed in The European Legacy, Vol. 16, No. 1
Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining highlights a little-noticed
dimension of Murdoch's philosophy and invites more critical
engagement with her thought... Altorf has helpfully opened doors
that Murdoch tended to keep shut. One hopes other scholars will
follow.
*Journal of Religion*
'Altorf has created far more than a book on Iris Murdoch - imagery
and imagination inspire the portrait of a woman philosopher.
Employing the philosophical imaginary of Michèle Le Doeuff, Altorf
explores the art which captures the originality of Murdoch as a
woman who writes novels and philosophy.' Pamela Sue Anderson,
Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK
Mention -Book News, November 2008
Mention -Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 2009
"Altorf ... discusses Murdoch's objection to the widely held
philosophical notion that the unexamined life is not worth living.
She states that for Murdoch artists may portray moral ideals and
actions that are not amenable to exact explanation. Thus we get a
sense that it is perhaps through the imagination that one confronts
the limits of imaging. Altorf's work opens an exploration of this
notion as well as other intricacies of Murdoch's thinking, which
will, I hope, prompt the reader to explore the depths of Murdoch's
wide array of writings." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
*Sharin N. Elkholy*
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