Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness

by Maria Antonaccio

Book Overview

A noted philosopher and one of the most gifted and prolific novelists of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch has anticipated and shaped many of the issues central to current ethics. These include the relation between human identity and ideas of the good, the effect of the modern critique of religion on moral thought, the relation between ethics and literature, and the contemporary debate about liberalism. In the most comprehensive engagement with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226021130
• ISBN13: 9780226021133
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"