on Iris Murdoch and the limits of philosophical discourse /
Niklas Forsberg
New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc,
2013
viii, 245 pages ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index
1 Apparent paradoxes -- The received view and its complications -- Approaching the Black Prince -- Localizing Murdoch -- A fatty pâté and a plateful of cherries: on Nussbaum (on literature) -- The commonplaceness of the approach -- Preparatory summary: the appearance of paradox -- 1 How to make a mirror -- Murdoch on art and literature and love -- What is a mirror? -- Wittgenstein and the difficulty of acknowledging illusions of sense -- Kierkegaard and grammatical illusions -- Mirroring illusions: the thought of the indirect communication -- Inheriting Wittgenstein (and Kierkegaard) -- 3 Sensing a sense lost -- Loss of concepts, loss of questions -- Contrasting pictures of the human -- Vision over choice -- Making pictures (perfectionism and vision) -- 4 Reading The Black Prince -- 'Murdoch's most self-consciously Kierkegaardian love story' -- In the context of Bradley Pearson's form of life -- Passing verdict: who did it? -- In disagreement with oneself: a failure to mean -- 5 What is it like to be a corpse? -- Introduction: running out of arguments? -- Costello's speechlessness and Diamond's concerns -- The exemplary bat -- Understanding deflection -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Smashing mirrors, collecting the pieces, returning our words -- The concept of a concept and the loss of concepts -- Smashing mirrors, returning to the ordinary -- Literature, distance and the return of our words