Language lost and found : on Iris Murdoch and the limits of philosophical discourse

Content: Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Acknowledgements
 Introduction
 Chapter 1 Apparent Paradoxes
 1.1 The received view and its complications
 1.2 Approaching The Black Prince
 1.3 Localizing Murdoch
 1.4 A fatty pâté and a plateful of cherries: On Nussbaum (on literature)
 1.5 The commonplaceness of the approach
 1.6 Preparatory summary: The appearance of paradox
 Chapter 2 How to Make a Mirror
 2.1 Murdoch on art and literature and love
 2.2 What is a mirror?
 2.3 Wittgenstein and the difficulty of acknowledging illusions of sense
 2.4 Kierkegaard and grammatical illusions. 2.5 Mirroring illusions: The thought of the indirect communication2.6 Inheriting Wittgenstein (and Kierkegaard)
 Chapter 3 Sensing a Sense Lost
 3.1 Loss of concepts, loss of questions
 3.2 Contrasting pictures of the human
 3.3 Vision over choice
 3.4 Making pictures (perfectionism and vision)
 Chapter 4 Reading The Black Prince
 4.1 'Murdoch's most self-consciously Platonic Kierkegaardian love story'
 4.2 In the context of Bradley Pearson's form of life
 4.3 Passing verdict: Who did it?
 4.4 In disagreement with oneself: A failure to mean
 Chapter 5 What is it Like to Be a Corpse? 5.1 Introduction: Running out of arguments?5.2 Costello's speechlessness and Diamond's concerns
 5.3 The exemplary bat
 5.4 Understanding deflection
 5.5 Concluding remarks
 Chapter 6 Smashing Mirrors, Collecting the Pieces, Returning Our Words
 6.1 The concept of a concept and the loss of concepts
 6.2 Smashing mirrors, returning to the ordinary
 6.3 Literature, distance and the return of our words
 Bibliography
 Index.