Language lost and found : on Iris Murdoch and the limits of philosophical discourse /: on Iris Murdoch and the limits of philosophical discourse. (2013 copyright 2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Niklas Forsberg.
• Authors: Forsberg, Niklas
• Contents: Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Apparent Paradoxes 1.1 The Received View and its Complications 24 1.2 Approaching "The Black Prince†? 36 1.3 Localizing Murdoch 52 1.4 A Fatty Pâté and a Plateful of Cherries: On Nussbaum (on Literature) 64 1.5. The Commonplaceness of the Approach 75 1.6 Preparatory Summary: The Appearance of Paradox 90 Chapter 2 How to Make a Mirror 2.1 Murdoch on Art and Literature and Love 94 2.2 What is a Mirror? 128 2.3 Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of Acknowledging Illusions of Sense 135 2.4 Kierkegaard and Grammatical Illusions 144 2.5 Mirroring Illusions: The Thought of the Indirect Communication 152 2.6 Inheriting Wittgenstein (and Kierkegaard) 161 Chapter 3 Sensing a Sense Lost 3.1 Loss of Concepts, Loss of Questions 191 3.2 Contrasting Pictures of the Human 215 3.3 Vision over Choice 230 3.4 Making Pictures (Perfectionism and Vision) 235 Chapter 4 Reading The Black Prince 4.1 "Murdoch's Most Self-Consciously Platonic Kierkegaardian Love Story†? 257 4.2 In the Context of Bradley Pearson's Form of Life 269 4.3 Passing Verdict: Who did it? 302 4.4 In Disagreement with Oneself: A Failure to Mean 310 Chapter 5 What is it Like to Be a Corpse? 5.1 Introduction: Running Out of Arguments? 318 5.2 Costello's Speechlessness and Diamond's Concerns 321 5.3 The Exemplary Bat 334 5.4 Understanding Deflection 343 5.5 Concluding Remarks 355 Chapter 6 Smashing Mirrors, Collecting the Pieces, Returning Our Words 6.1 The Concept of a Concept and the Loss of Concepts 358 6.2 Smashing Mirrors, Returning to the Ordinary 371 6.3 Literature, Distance and the Return of Our Words 376 Bibliography 389.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 192; Literary studies: general; Philosophy, British -- 20th century; Literature -- Philosophy; Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Philosophy -- General; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Literary Criticism -- General; Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623569730; 1623569737
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