1 Current read: Discognition by #SteveShaviro (so far, it’s excellent)
2 The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes
3 TBD; probably Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred by #JeffreyJKripal
4 Bruno’s Dream by #IrisMurdoch
#books #BookSky
#TheBell (1958) #IrisMurdoch
Current Read: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch. Just finished the long pre history and loved it. Now into the meat of the book. First time reading Murdoch.
#booksky #irismurdoch #penguinclassics #britishliterature
Coberta de la novel·la 'El príncep negre', d’Iris Murdoch.
«Tots els artistes són amants infeliços. I els amants infeliços volen explicar les seves històries». #IrisMurdoch
#TheSeaTheSea
#IrisMurdoch
“…lying awake at night and finding one's only consolation in imagining in detail how one would go downstairs and find a hatchet and smash one's partners head in and mash it into a bloody pudding on the pillow!"
#TheWriteWomen
Just put my abstract in for the 2026 international Iris Murdoch conference …
The railways of Iris Murdoch 🤩 #IrisMurdoch
Associate professor at the department, Cathy Mason, has just released a new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy: Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good'!
Link below and don't miss the sound recording in the comments!
#philosophy #irismurdoch
@irismurdoch.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
📕 New book!
Key researcher, Cathy Mason's new book 'Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy: Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good' has just been published by Oxford University Press.
👉️ Read more here: buff.ly/sYOLtLQ
#newrelease #irismurdoch #moralphilosophy
“The #novelist #IrisMurdoch, whose lengthy, involved, brilliant #novels are probably the kind of thing most people don’t read any more, understood #attention better than most.” Well, I know some people who still read her. Otherwise this piece on our #attentiondeficit by #MarkKingwell is very good.
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” #IrisMurdoch #flower #art #image #photography #flowers #colour
Iris Murdoch and the Natural World with Miles Leeson: live online course starts Sunday 15 March. Nearly sold out. #irismurdoch
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026
#SimoneWeil said that morality was a matter of #attention not of will. We need a new vocabulary of attention.
- #IrisMurdoch
Filosoof Lotte Spreeuwenberg zal over Iris Murdoch worden geïnterviewd door Bart Geeraedts voor de ISVW podcast. Erbij zijn? Tickets zijn verkrijgbaar via nachtvandefilosofie.org.
#Nachtvandefilosofie #Amsterdam #Filosofie #IrisMurdoch #ISVW #OpenbareBibliotheekAmsterdam #OBA
“I love beauty, therefore i am…” this is a resolution to skepticism i can get behind #cavell #irismurdoch #acknowledgment (thanks Fernando Pessoa)
Long narrow landscape format sketchbook page. A page full of purple ink blots on a grey background. Each blot has been decorated with pinks spots and given a stalk and leaves. Each blot looks like a funky flower.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. #irismurdoch #artist #pixelfedart
Iris Murdoch and the Natural World: live online course. Five lectures and seminars, Sundays, fortnightly, 15 March to 10 May 2026, 6.00 to 8.00 pm British time.
#irismurdoch
Just a few places left.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026
"Çok ilginç, meğer insanları korkutmak, kafasını karıştırmak ve onlara zulmetmek, dehşete düşürüp delirtmek ve hayatlarını felakete çevirmek ne kolaymış. Diktatörlerin başarısına şaşmamak gerek!"
#IrisMurdoch
İrlanda'lı yazar ve filozofun aramızdan ayrılışının 27. yılında saygıyla..
“To be a human being is to know more than one can prove, to conceive of a reality which goes ‘beyond the facts’ in these familiar and natural ways.” #irismurdoch
Year of Winslet
I have to imagine this is the most accurate portrayal of Alzheimer's disease. (The song Silent House by Neil Finn & Natalie Maynes tell the same story with what must be... #yearofwinslet #katewinslet #filmsky #johnbayley #iris #irismurdoch Overall rating: 4 out of 5 ⭐️ boxd.it/d3pMxt
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
- Iris Murdoch, The nice and the good
died on this day, 1999
#BookSky
#IrisMurdoch
Died #otd Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Irish and British novelist, 27 years ago today #IrisMurdoch life story...
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
✒ #IrisMurdoch, Irish-born writer ("The Sea, The Sea"), #DOTD 8 February 1999. #Philosophy #Literature
“ #Words are the most subtle %symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. The living and radical nature of %language is something which we forget at our peril.” - #IrisMurdoch
Black and white photo of a young Iris Murdoch sitting with her chin on her hand. Books behind her.
Live online course with Miles Leeson: Iris Murdoch and the Natural World. Starts 15 March 2026.
- The Unicorn (1963)
- The Sea, The Sea (1978)
- Nuns and Soldiers (1980)
- The Good Apprentice (1985)
- The Message to the Planet (1989)
#irismurdoch
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026
“There is a grace of #certainty about falling in love. There is a grace of certainty in #art, but it is very rare.” - #IrisMurdoch, Bruno’s Dream
“As one grows #older, thought Bruno, one becomes less moral, there is less time, one bothers less, one gets careless.” - #IrisMurdoch, Bruno’s Dream
30 day books by women. My day 18. Have to include Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea.
Read and re read many times. Themes of Self-deception, isolation, ageing, and just so well written. Plus I always had a thing about the sea! #BookSky #readingwomen #30daybookchallenge #IrisMurdoch
El repàs d’avui dels #IrreductiblesDeLany2025, ens porta a «La campana», de #IrisMurdoch publicada per @edicions1984.bsky.social en traducció de #JaumePonsAlorda. Una novel·la que combina qualitat literària amb una trama molt addictiva.
Participeu i guanyeu un magnífic lot de llibres!!
My #best reads list for 2025 was, well, hopelessly #eclectic: #CharlesTaylor, #ManueldeLanda, #VaclavSmil, #PhilipKDick, #IrisMurdoch, #AlisdairMacIntyre, #JamesCScott, #HPLovecraft, etc
#books #BookSky #BestReads #fiction #nonfiction #reading doncurren.blogspot.com/2026/01/five...
