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Tables of Contents for Iris Murdoch for Beginners
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
1
Iris Murdoch, novelist
2
3
Early years
5
4
Formative years
9
5
Murdoch's early novels
14
4
What is 'liberal humanism' and why is it in crisis?
18
8
Meeting Sartre
26
1
Existentialism: the new religion
27
4
What's wrong with existentialism?
31
2
The contingent
33
3
Freud
36
4
Eros
40
2
Falling in love again (and again)
42
2
Summary
44
1
Murdoch's idea of the novel
45
5
The Sixties
50
5
What kind of philosopher is Iris Murdoch?
55
1
Moral philosophy
56
5
Metaphysics
61
4
The divine Plato
65
5
'Metaphysics as a guide to morals', or: A theology without God
70
5
The pilgrimage from appearance to reality
75
4
The artist and the saint
79
5
The Seventies
84
4
Being good (for nothing): mysticism
88
2
Ascesis
90
5
Attention
95
6
Love!
101
5
Art
106
8
Summary of Murdoch's philosophy
114
1
The ascetic and the aesthetic
115
3
The Eighties and Nineties
118
3
A quiet dark place
121
6
Further reading
127
2
Index
129
3
The authors
132