Degrees of Evil in Iris Murdoch's Fiction and Philosophy

by Daniel Read

This is the first survey of Murdoch's exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study demonstrates how her work engages with currently urgent issues of trauma, terrorism and psychopathy and brings her works into dialogue with key figures in twentieth- and twenty-first-century discussions of evil, including Hannah Arendt, Carl Gustav Jung, Susan Neiman and Simone Weil. These resonances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031758404
• ISBN13: 9783031758409
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan