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Love, Form and the Murdochian Sublime| title | Love, Form and the Murdochian Sublime |
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| start_date | 2023/04/17 |
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| schedule | 15h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de réunion |
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| summary | At the close of her 1959 paper ‘The Sublime and the Good’, Iris Murdoch makes an astonishing and difficult-to-interpret statement : “Form is the great consolation of love, but it is also its great temptation”. In the first part of the talk, I offer a way of reading this claim. I spell out Murdoch’s reimagining of the Kantian Sublime and the significance of her conception of form. In the second part of the talk, I use this analysis to interrogate different ways of operationalizing her infamous claim that ‘Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself and then comes to resemble the picture’. The main task of moral philosophy is, she thinks, to understand this process. I draw on some recent work in aesthetics to make a start |
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| responsibles | Dokic, Arcangeli |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/04/04 15:33 UTC |
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