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Start time: 17:15 Talk by Gary Browning IRIS MURDOCH & the Political 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, sexual Adult: Free Child: Child Age Limit: Concession Details: Name: Heather Robbins Telephone: 01243 816479 Email: h.robbins@chi.ac.uk Website:
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End time: 18:30
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Gary Browning
Saturday 9 November, 5.15 – 6.30 p.m.,
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
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