Iris murdoch philosophy books
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Iris Murdoch
Born
in Dublin, IrelandJuly 15, 1919
Died
February 08, 1999
Genre
Fiction, Philosophy
Influences
Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, SJean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Beckett, Schopenhauer, Simone Weil, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Lev Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Plato...more
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease.
"She wanted, through her novels, to reach all possible readers, in different ways and by different means: by the excitement of her story, its pace and its comedy, through its ideas and its philosophical implications, through the numinous atmosphere of her
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Rupert Murdoch
Australian-American business magnate (born 1931)
Keith Rupert Murdoch (MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American retired business magnate, investor, and media mogul.[3][4] Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian), in the US (The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post), book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through the Fox Corporation). He was also the owner of Sky (until 2018), 21st Century Fox (until 2019), and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022,[update] Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine.[5] Due to his extensive wealth influence over media and politics, Murdoch ha
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Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Dame Jean Iris MurdochDBE (MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[1]
Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), An Unofficial Rose (1962), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Philosopher's Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight
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