Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for t

Collected here for the first time in one volume are Iris Murdoch's most influential essays, including her influential critiques of existentialism, written in th

At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philo

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of I

The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still