Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled issue of Murdoch's

A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.

This book will be of great value to philosophers, gender theorists, literary critics and others engaged with the questions of life's meaning and what a deepened

Describes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.

Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the cou