Language Lost and Found On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse

by Forsberg, Niklas

• ISBN13: 9781623564834
• ISBN10: 1623564832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-09-26
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguistic community and the roots of the thought that some philosophical problems arise due to our having lost the sense of our own language. But it is also a call for a radical reconsideration of how philosophy and literature relate to each other on a general level and in Murdoch's authorship in particular.

Author Biography

Niklas Forsberg is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has previously written on Wittgenstein, Cavell, Murdoch, Austin and Derrida.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Chapter 1.Apparent Paradoxes/ Chapter 2.How to Make a Mirror/ Chapter 3.Sensing a Sense Lost/ Chapter 4.Reading The Black Prince/ Chapter 5.What is it Like to Be a Corpse?/ Chapter 6.Smashing Mirrors, Collecting the Pieces, Returning Our Words / Bibliography / Index