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Iris Murdoch & the Political
IRIS MURDOCH & the Political
Gary Browning
Saturday 9 November, 5.15 - 6.30 p.m.,
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Free and open to all
Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, just as she did in literature and philosophy. She saw historical experience as the foundation upon which the interlinked activities of literature, philosophy and politics are based. From an early political radicalism to a later anti-utopianism, Murdoch reacted to the great political events of the 20th century, notably the Holocaust, the rise and fall of ideologies, sexual repression, and the realities of totalitarianism. Her political philosophy conceptualized relations between moral and political spheres, and her novels deal imaginatively with questions of migration, refugees, sexuality and freedom. Her letters and journals provide moment to moment reactions to major political events.
Gary Browning is Emeritus Professor of Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University.
Gary Browning
Saturday 9 November, 5.15 - 6.30 p.m.,
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Free and open to all
Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, just as she did in literature and philosophy. She saw historical experience as the foundation upon which the interlinked activities of literature, philosophy and politics are based. From an early political radicalism to a later anti-utopianism, Murdoch reacted to the great political events of the 20th century, notably the Holocaust, the rise and fall of ideologies, sexual repression, and the realities of totalitarianism. Her political philosophy conceptualized relations between moral and political spheres, and her novels deal imaginatively with questions of migration, refugees, sexuality and freedom. Her letters and journals provide moment to moment reactions to major political events.
Gary Browning is Emeritus Professor of Political Thought at Oxford Brookes University.
Saturday 9 November, 5.15 - 6.30 p.m.,
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Free and open to all
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Free and open to all
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 6PE
Sat 9 November
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www.chi.ac.uk/events