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Bényei, Tamás. "Angelic Omissions: Iris Murdoch’s Angels and Ethical Criticism." European Journal of English Studies 7, no. 2 (August 2003): 151–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/ejes.7.2.151.15889.
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Hämäläinen, Nora. "Reduce Ourselves to Zero?: Sabina Lovibond, Iris Murdoch, and Feminism." Hypatia 30, no. 4 (2015): 743–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12172.
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In her book Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy, Sabina Lovibond argues that Iris Murdoch's philosophical and literary work is covertly dedicated to an ideology of female subordination. The most central and interesting aspect of her multifaceted argument concerns Murdoch's focus on the individual person's moral self‐scrutiny and transformation of consciousness. Lovibond suggests that this focus is antithetical to the kind of communal and structural criticism of society that has been essential for the advance of feminism. She further reads Murdoch's dismissal of “structuralism” as proof of Murdoch's alleged conservatism and neglect of feminist concerns. In this article I will argue that this line of argument—though not completely off‐base concerning the awkwardness of Murdoch's relation to feminism—(1) gives a misleading picture of Murdoch's philosophical and ideological position, and (2) establishes a problematic (though not unusual) antagonism between moral self‐scrutiny and social criticism, which a closer look at Murdoch's work can help us overcome.
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Berthoud, Luiza Esper. "Art History and Other Stories." ARS (São Paulo) 18, no. 38 (April 30, 2020): 197–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.162471.
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Through the analysis of one erroneous piece of art criticism, an essay by Goethe that re-imagines a lost ancient sculpture, I demonstrate the difficulty that the discipline of art history has with conceptualizing the experience of art making and how one ought to respond to it. I re-examine the relationship between art making and art appreciation informed by ideas such as the Aristotelian view of Poiesis, Iris Murdoch’s praise of art in an unreligious age, and Giorgio Agamben’s call for the unity between poetry and philosophy. I also argue that much of modern art criticism has forgotten Arts’ earlier conceptual vocation, and propose methods of appreciating art that are in themselves artistic.
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Couture, Tony. "Feminist Criticisms of Habermas's Ethics and Politics." Dialogue 34, no. 2 (1995): 259–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300014700.
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My project is to assess recent objections directed at Jürgen Habermas by Nancy Fraser, Iris Young and Seyla Benhabib. This dispute is significant because it concerns the value of the Enlightenment style, detached criticism promoted by Habermas as compared to new proposals about dissent from a stance connected to social movements. I argue that these feminist criticisms of Habermas's critical theory are compelling and that they require substantial changes in Habermas's thinking.
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Gordon, David J. "Iris Murdoch's Comedies of Unselfing. Winner of the 1990 TCL Prize in Literary Criticism." Twentieth Century Literature 36, no. 2 (1990): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/441817.
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Cronan, Todd. "Judgment Takes Care of Itself." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 70, no. 2 (June 2024): 225–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2024.a928340.
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Abstract: Aesthetic judgment does not require defense, because moral judgment saturates our language and our experience. In the first part of this essay, I look at the writings of Iris Murdoch, Stanley Cavell, and G. E. M. Anscombe to show how judgments shape our most intimate dealings with the world. In the second part, I examine a strong instance of practical criticism: the writings of Clement Greenberg on Impressionism and Henri Matisse. Greenberg’s Kantian attempt to separate aesthetic judgment from moral judgment breaks down in practice, a testimony to the depth of his engagement with art and the ubiquity of moral judgment.
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Lita, Ana. "Iris Murdoch's Criticism of Traditional Views of the Moral Self: An Alternative Account of "seeing" the Others." Labyrinth 16, no. 2 (December 30, 2014): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.25180/lj.v16i2.6.
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The main objective of this article is to reconstruct Iris Murdoch's criticism of the moral self as it was developed by liberalism, romanticism, existentialism and linguistic empiricism that interpreted the moral person as entangled either in a world of essences (Kant's view) or in a world of mere existence in which the interplay of both necessity and freedom is at stake. Thus what is missing from all these theories is a sufficient development of what it is to have a regard for others through aesthetic perception, which is the most important aspect of the moral self. At the difference of these conceptions Murdoch offers an alternative view, both to liberal ethics in the Kantian tradition and to contemporary ethics, as she argues that to have regard for others demands responsiveness which can also be explained in terms of aesthetic sensibility. Murdoch's ethics rests on an analogy between aesthetic sensibility and moral sensibility based upon the model of the artist's unconditional love for his characters, which she interprets as being a matter of seeing and loving others. The author's thesis is that love is the crucial point of Murdoch's conception of the moral self where the moral and aesthetical sensibility, as well cognition, intersect each other, because seeing others incorporates emotions of respect and compassion that characterize love and such seeing is cognitive love.
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Rizky, Wilma Afrilia. "Oppression Towards Main Female Characters in Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter." Journal of Literature, Linguistics, & Cultural Studies 2, no. 2 (May 7, 2024): 184–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/lilics.v2i2.3778.
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The perception of the women's inferiority in society has created significant issues in the form of oppression of women. Furthermore, literary works portrayed these issues to raise awareness because it has an important role as one of the means to address the issue of oppression against women. Shobha Rao's novel Girls Burn Brighter is a feminist literary work that highlights the oppression of women. This study aims to examine the oppression of main female characters as revealed in the novel through literary devices. This study used a sociological approach since the novel raise the social phenomena of female oppression which is examined through the perspective of feminist literary criticism. The researcher applies Iris Young's theory of oppression to explore the forms of oppression and Kimberly Crenshaw's theory of intersectionality to look out the factors of oppression experienced by main female characters. The results of this study found that the main female characters, namely Poornima and Savitha, experience oppression in the form of marginalization, exploitation, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. Their experiences of oppression manifest in the form of marginalization of job opportunity, sexual and labor exploitation, powerlessness to speak up, cultural imperialism of the dowry system, and physical and sexual violence. These forms of oppression are influenced by intersecting factors such as gender, social class, political power, skin color, and dominant culture. Keywords: oppression, intersectionality, feminist literary criticism
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Winther, Hannah. "Reflective Empiricism and Empirical Animal Ethics." Animals 12, no. 16 (August 21, 2022): 2143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani12162143.
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The past few decades have seen a turn to the empirical in applied ethics. This article makes two contributions to debates on this turn: one with regard to methodology and the other with regard to scope. First, it considers empirical bioethics, which arose out of a protest against abstract theorizing in moral philosophy and a call for more sensitivity to lived experience. Though by now an established field, methodological discussions are still centred around the question of how empirical research can inform normative analysis. This article proposes an answer to this question that is based on Iris Murdoch’s criticism of the fact/value distinction and Cora Diamond’s concept of reflective empiricism. Second, the discussion takes as a point of departure a study on genome-edited farmed salmon that uses qualitative research interviews and focus groups. Although there are several animal ethics studies based in empirical data, there are few works on the methodological challenges raised by empirical ethics in this area. The article contributes to these discussions by arguing that reflective empiricism can constitute a methodological approach to animal ethics.
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Yamada, Ryūsaku. "Feminism in Radical Democracy and Japanese Political Theory: Mouffe, Pateman, Young, and “Essentialism”." Comparative Political Theory 1, no. 1 (June 16, 2021): 8–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26669773-01010003.
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Abstract This paper examines feminist arguments in radical democracy and Japanese responses to them. Although feminist insights are significant intellectual sources of radical democracy, recent political theorists have tended to exclusively consider radical democracy as agonistic pluralism. The radical democratic thinker Chantal Mouffe, who is very popular among Japanese political theorists and philosophers, criticizes the “essentialist” tendency of two feminist political theorists, namely Carole Pateman and Iris Marion Young. First this paper examines Mouffe’s critique of the two theorists. Second, it evaluates the relevance of Mouffe’s criticism of Pateman and Young by reconsidering their ideas on democracy and citizenship. Third, it engages the works of a few Japanese political theorists who respond to the issue of essentialism and points out the problems involved in the introduction of radical democracy in Japan and in Japanese feminist political theory. Finally, this paper concludes that we are still in the early stages of introducing and absorbing foreign feminist political theories into Japan as opposed to developing original Japanese feminist political theory to share with the world.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Criticism and interpretationmurdoch, iris"
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Ariturk, Nur Nilgun. "An Iris in the sun : perception-reception-perception in Iris Murdoch's novels of the good." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1970.
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Murdoch considers herself a 'Christian fellow-traveller', 'a kind of Platonist' and a 'sort of Buddhist', all of which summarise her spirit of writing very well. Iris Murdoch places a very serious obligation on the artist to present reality to his/her observers/readers. In almost all her philosophical articles, books, and interviews, she expresses with great emphasis the task of art, especially prose literature, as a form of education for moral development. In that sense, we can call her a moralist and a 'philosophical' novelist. With her 'Novels of the Good' Iris Murdoch is inviting the reader for a 'journey into the iris', saying: 'I am the Iris; come into me and see. ' The message of her novels is not of 'philosophy' but of everyday moral reality. In other words, reading Murdochian novels is reading morals. This is the main argument in this study. The moral education (preception) of the reader by Iris Murdoch is to 'realise' (receive) the 'perception' of the other--hence the title of the thesis--through her 'novels of character'. For Murdoch, appreciating a work of art is no different than knowing another person(s). The good artist and the good person have, in that respect, the same moral discipline. And this disciplined attention brings with it the true perception and clarity and morally right behaviour. The reader has to attend with moral responsibility to the work of art because it is through literature that s/he can enlarge his/her vision and inner space. The thesis is divided into two main sections: the moral precepts and their exemplification as concrete everyday examples in her novels themselves. The Introduction provides the 'philosophical' and theoretical background for Murdoch's 'Novels of the Good'. Included here is a dictionary of some of the major 'concepts', or rather 'precepts' that Murdoch uses both in her novels and her philosophical articles and books, in order to train her reader to gain ethical vision. Also included in this chapter is a section on reading and readers through structuralist and reader-oriented theories in contrast to or comparison with Murdoch's conception/perception of the 'reader' in her novels. Chapter I switches on the 'machine', Murdoch's &camera-eye' on the egoistic human 'psyche', which Murdoch likens to a machine. Chapter 11 discusses this 'machine' in close-up, that is through first-person narrative novels. Chapter 111, which includes novels that have philosophers at the centre, throws a 'light' on philosophy and everyday reality. Chapter IV explores the importance of death in everyday life. However, although the chapters are divided under different titles, the novels discussed in each chapter can be related to the rest as Murdoch discusses the same precepts recurrently in different contexts which gives her novels the 'serial' characteristic. Each novel is part of the reader's pilgrimage to the Good to understand his/her limitations in the face of the contingent reality represented in her fiction through free individual characters. To enter the Murdochland is to enter the cycle of 'arriving at not arriving'.
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Conlin, Alice. "Iris Murdoch on knowledge and freedom." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79833.
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In chapter one, I describe the different conceptions of self that Murdoch and Nussbaum have, and I show how these affect their depictions of human good. And I relate how each one defends the internal logic of her claims against the critique of moral relativism. I examine Iris Murdoch's conception of reality and consciousness in the distinctive way that she fuses them to a transcendent morality.In chapter two, I turn to Murdoch's description of the journey from illusion to reality and the role of love or eros in this journey. I examine the many points of intersection between her description of the escape from selfishness and Wendy Farley's (1996) theory of how we acknowledge the other through a type of attention that she calls eros for the other .
In Chapter three, I discuss the problem that evil poses for Murdoch's moral philosophy, and how Murdoch and Farley interpret the experience of the void as yearning for relation. In the conclusion of this thesis, I present Murdoch's views on form as the consolation of human yearning. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Cooper, Richard. "The languages of philosophy, religion, and art in the writings of Iris Murdoch /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72105.
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This thesis develops a complex theoretical model for conceptualizing the relationships among philosophy, religion, and art and, then, examines the philosophical writings and the novels of Iris Murdoch from this perspective. The theoretical model in its most general form is based on the premiss that philosophy, religion, and art can be thought of as conventionally defined linguistic fields analogous to Wittgensteinian language-games. Relations among the linguistic fields are, in turn, analysed as exclusive ("Disparate" Model), inclusive ("Reductionist" Model), or interactional ("Dialectical" and "Tensional" Models), the latter pair being most appropriate for figurative language, the former pair for non-figurative language. The Dialectical and Tensional Models are assimilated, respectively, to Roman Jakobson's theory of metaphor and metonymy as the fundamental poles of language. Emphasis falls upon the continuum between the dialectical-metaphoric and the tensional-metonymic poles as the area in which creative, imaginative activities, such as the writing of novels or deliberation upon ethical problems, takes place. Iris Murdoch's theories of "crystalline" and "journalistic," "open" and "closed" novels and the related ways of thinking are coordinated with this continuum as a paradigm. Moreover, a creative tension is revealed in her philosophical writings between a resisted impetus towards totalizing explanations and the experience of the inherent contingency of philosophical thought. Thus, there is in Murdoch's philosophy, as in her creative prose, an exploration of the dynamics between the dialectical-metaphoric pole of thought and language and the tensional-metonymic pole, with an increasing, though never finally realized tendency towards the tensional-metonymic pole. Detailed analyses of Murdoch's aesthetic and ethical thought and of a wide selection of her novels illustrate this thesis.
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Robjant, David. "The river as a guide to Iris Murdoch." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683256.
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Spear, Hilda D. Iris Murdoch. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.
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Deborah, Johnson. Iris Murdoch. Brighton, U.K: Harvester Press, 1987.
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Jonathan, Noakes, ed. Iris Murdoch. London: Vintage, 2004.
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Byatt, A. S. Iris Murdoch. London: British Council, 1988.
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Harold, Bloom, ed. Iris Murdoch. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
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Iris Murdoch. 2nd ed. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Iris Murdoch. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
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Deborah, Johnson. Iris Murdoch. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
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Iris Murdoch. Brighton, Sussex, UK: Harvester Press, 1987.
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Understanding Iris Murdoch. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.
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Fine, David J. "Disciplines of Attention: Iris Murdoch on Consciousness, Criticism, and Thought (MGM Chapters 6–8)." In Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, 107–23. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18967-9_8.
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On, Bat-Ami Bar. "Between Democracy and Violence and the Problem of Military Humanitarian Interventions." In Dancing with Iris, 103–16. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195389128.003.0009.
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Abstract In “Power, Violence, and Legitimacy: A Reading of Hannah Arendt in an Age of Police Brutality and Humanitarian Intervention,” Iris Marion Young notes that in 1999, while completing Inclusion and Democracy, she was unable to continue her work on the book since “[w]ith NATO bombs raining on Yugoslavia, reffection on the essentially nonviolent values of democracy felt irrelevant at best and arrogantly privileged at worst” (Young 2007 p. 79). Young then turned to think about violence and wrote “Power, Violence and Legitimacy” (2001, republished in 2007). Young devoted some of her time to thinking about violence again after the Al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the George W. Bush administration’s quick response with a declaration of a “War on Terror.” She did so in two essays, “Envisioning a Global Rule of Law,” which she coauthored with Daniele Archibugi (2002, republished in 2007), and “The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reffections on the Current Security State” (2003, republished in 2007). What all three essays share is a very critical view of what Young comes to call “official violence”—the violence “perpetrated by agents of the state as means to achieve their mission of law enforcement” (2007, p. 95) either domestically or internationally—and of the rhetoric that is deployed to mobilize support for official violence. The criticism, Young points out, is motivated by a “hope for a regime of perpetual peace” (2007, p. 3) that Young believes must never be abandoned, a hope that given Young’s commitments and other work, I read as one for a global version of a socioeconomically just liberal-democracy with accountable transnational institutions and an active public sphere.
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Browning, Gary. "Socialism, Community, and Limiting Leviathan." In Iris Murdoch and the Political, 103–24. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191937347.003.0005.
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Abstract Murdoch’s non-fiction exploration of the political is matched by the inclusion within her novels of a number of political themes. In the early novels Murdoch’s radical utopianism is explored. For instance, in Under the Net, the nature of socialism is debated by the major protagonist, Jake Donaghue, and a political radical, Lefty Todd. Their conversation raises major questions about the popularity and character of socialism in the post-war world. Freedom is discussed by the character Bill Mor in The Sandcastle, and a radical community experimenting with non-capitalist modes of work is described in The Bell. Revolutionary Irish Nationalism is explored in The Red and the Green, along with more moderate Anglo-Irish sentiments. In subsequent novels more pessimistic readings of the political are offered, notably in The Book and the Brotherhood where a great critical work of political theory is being written, and characters discuss its prospects and meaning. Notwithstanding her increasing criticism of radical politics, the novel appears to support lively debate on politics, in which radicalism is espoused alongside more conservative views.
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Lovibond, Sabina. "Iris Murdoch and the Quality of Consciousness." In Essays on Ethics and Culture, 184–99. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856166.003.0012.
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Abstract Murdoch’s moral philosophy lays stress on the need to resist our natural tendency to self-absorption and turn our attention outward, so as to appreciate the value present in nature, art, and (above all) other persons. In this way, she argues, we can work to amend the quality of our states of consciousness, and hence (indirectly) of our actions. By way of commentary on this view, the present essay suggests that Murdoch’s early apprenticeship in Marxist politics—and her subsequent rejection of Marxism—may have left a trace both in the idea that ‘our states of consciousness differ in quality’ (and thus admit of improvement); and also in the specific, distinctively ‘idealist’ course indicated by her mature philosophy for the project of moral self-criticism.
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Dunham-Hickman, Miranda. "8 Mixing the Brows in Print: Iris Barry’s Film Criticism of the 1920s." In Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s, 120–33. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781474450652-015.
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Adlington, Hugh. "Reputation and Influence." In Penelope Fitzgerald, 113–17. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780746312957.003.0007.
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This chapter assesses the growth of Penelope Fitzgerald’s literary reputation since her death in 2000, and gauges the nature of her influence on other writers. It weighs up contemporary criticism of her work, and suggests that despite the favourable attention given to her life and writing in recent years, including film and radio adaptations of her novels, and Hermione Lee’s full-length biography, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, Fitzgerald’s place in the canon of twentieth-century British fiction is not necessarily secure. This is partly because of the difficulty of categorizing Fitzgerald’s work. Her style and sensibility have more in common with her chronological peers, such as post-war novelists Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, than with novelists of the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time, reviewers of female ironists such as Fitzgerald tend to overplay the benignity of her fiction, as though subtlety and understatement were incommensurate with the exploration of the major questions of life. The chapter concludes by calling on educators, writers, and publishers to support her legacy by continuing to study, adapt and print her works.
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Stead, Lisa. "Film Talk: C. A. Lejeune and the Female Film Critic." In Off to the Pictures. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694884.003.0006.
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This chapter examines how early film criticism evolved as a distinct branch of women’s interwar ‘film talk’ through writers such as Iris Barry and Dilys Powell, taking C. A. Lejeune as a central case study. It explores Lejeune’s early writing in her The Manchester Guardian column from 1922 to 1928 and early work for the Observer. The chapter looks at developments and trends in her writing, considering how her columns produced a journalistic mode of film talk coloured specifically by debates and concerns about gender. This is read through Lejeune’s specific discussions about notions of women’s cinema, women and stardom, and female spectatorship. Gender shaped and shadowed much of her critical discourse, not only through the gendered associations of the topics she discussed – especially stardom – but through her approach to negotiating her own gender identity as a professional film critic, and the experimentation she enacted with crafting and refining her journalistic voice as a distinctly film-based writer. The chapter explores the stylistic strategies of Lejeune’s column writing, examining her use of literary techniques and fictional frameworks as a way to turn her attention far more explicitly to the topic of women and cinema.
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Christensen, Anne-Marie Søndergaard. "The Critique of Moral Theories." In Moral Philosophy and Moral Life, 15–44. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866695.003.0002.
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This chapter surveys criticisms raised against moral theory from positions such as virtue ethics, particularism, anti-theory, and Wittgensteinian moral philosophy in order to identify the most central and damaging objections. It locates the origin of theory critique in two classic papers by Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Anscombe and proceeds to give an overview of the most influential points of criticism from the second half of the twentieth century. This overview is contrasted with an explication of the dominant understanding of moral theory presented in the work of Martha Nussbaum, which allows for an identification of the crucial objections to moral theory, here presented in the form they take in the work of Bernard Williams. The objections are that theories cannot provide a foundation for moral practice, and that they do not possess the authority necessary to serve as action-guiding in any substantial sense. The conclusion of the chapter is that proponents of the dominant understanding of moral theory cannot offer convincing answers to these objections, and that this points to a need to re-evaluate our understanding of both the role and the form of moral theories.