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Writer Meets Painter: Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger

Writer Meets Painter: Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger

13 January 2021By Heather RobbinsBlog

Iris Murdoch met the painter Harry Weinberger (1924-2009) by chance in the mid-1970s and in him she instantly recognised a kindred spirit. For more than two decades, they maintained an intimate friendship and rigorous intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art.

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A new article on Murdoch's philosophy (in German). ... See MoreSee Less

Die Souveränität des Guten - Ethik Heute

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Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), hat eine Moralphilosophie entwickelt, die sich an der Idee des Guten orientiert.
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The publishers have kindly given me permission to share my acknowledgements from 'Iris Murdoch and Remorse' with the Iris Murdoch community. I could not name everyone in them but I'm grateful to you ALL for making the world of IM readership and scholarship such a vibrant and happy place. Her spirit lives on :)**Acknowledgements**The world-wide Iris Murdoch community is a cooperative and supportive environment and I have many people to thank for inspiration and encouragement, beginning with Cheryl Bove who welcomed me into the Iris Murdoch Society back in the 1980s when I thought I was the only person compulsively reading her novels. But it was Anne Rowe who persuaded me to turn my passion for Murdoch’s work into a PhD thesis which I gained under her expert supervision from Kingston University, London, in 2010. And it was Miles Leeson, Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre, University of Chichester, who encouraged me to write this book, which has grown out of that thesis, for the series Iris Murdoch Today which we are co-editing. I owe these three colleagues, mentors and friends more than I can express. I am grateful to the team of staff and PhD students at the IMRC, Hannah Maria Altorf, Lewis Brewster, Rob Hardy, Lucy Oulton and Maria Peacock, and also to the editorial team of the *Iris Murdoch Review*, Rebecca Moden, Pamela Osborn, Daniel Read and Heather Robbins, also Lucy Bolton and Carol Sommer. I want to thank colleagues around the world who have included my work in collections they have edited: Gary Browning, Nora Hämäläinen and Gillian Dooley, Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, Mustafa Kırca and Şule Okuroğlu, Sofia de Melo Araújo and Fátima Vieira, Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood, Simone Roberts and Alison Scott**-**Baumann, and Margaret Sönmez. If I named every Murdoch colleague who has worked alongside me and inspired me the list would be never ending, but I must thank Paul Hullah and his Japanese colleagues for involving me with the Iris Murdoch Society of Japan, Fiona Tomkinson for being the perfect travelling companion at many Murdoch conferences abroad, and Scott Moore for broadening my horizons with his rich eclectic knowledge. Also Annette Badland, Patron of the Iris Murdoch Society, whose joyous presence has enhanced our events. The Iris Murdoch Collections in Kingston University Archives is a rich resource for scholars, and much gratitude is owed to Dayna Miller, the university archivist, and to Katie Giles, former archivist, for the help, support and enthusiasm they have unfailingly given to all researchers. I must also pay tribute to the dedicated work of Rachel Hirschler (among others) whose transcribing has made so much material available to scholars. I am specifically indebted to Stephanie Daniels, archivist at Badminton School, Bristol, for the image of Murdoch’s Linocut, ‘The Prisoner’, and to Badminton School for permission to use it, to Graham Harrison for information about Russian etymology and to Chiho Omichi for information about Japanese etymology. I am more generally indebted to Christopher Cordner, Murray Cox, Raimond Gaita, Michael Proeve, Mark Stern, Alan Thomas and Steven Tudor for their pioneering work in the field of remorse studies, to Bran Nicol for inspiration about the place of remorse in Murdoch’s retrospective fiction, and to Robin Silbergleid for informing my thinking on Murdoch’s place in Holocaust literature. All Murdoch scholars owe a debt of gratitude to Gillian Dooley for her invaluable collection of interviews in *From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction*. Turning from the Murdoch world to the personal, I could not have achieved any of this work without the support, encouragement and love of my friends and family so my final deep thanks go to my husband Stephen, my sons Samuel and Charles, and my daughter-in-law Charlotte (who is nothing like D!) ... See MoreSee Less
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Hello @everyone! We're coming up to our fiftieth podcast in the series and we need your help. We're looking to answer your questions on Murdoch's fiction, philosophy, plays, poetry, travels, letters - anything Murdoch-related.Leave your question as a comment to this post, or email it to ims@chi.ac.uk, and myself and the episode guests will do our best to answer it. 😄 ... See MoreSee Less

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We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value. ~Iris Murdoch(Book: The Sea, the Sea [ad] amzn.to/485R5Dt)(Art: Photograph by Jane Bown) ... See MoreSee Less

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Congratulations to Frances White on publishing her monograph! It joins other fantastic books in our co-edited 'Iris Murdoch Today' Series from Palgrave written by Gillian Dooley, Lesley Jamieson, Rebecca Moden Keenan and myself.We're always interested in hearing from potential authors so do get in touch @ ims@chi.ac.uk ... See MoreSee Less

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