CANCELLED: Iris Murdoch’s 'Under the Net'

Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London), Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University), Rachael Wiseman (University of Liverpool)

Due to strike action by UCU, this event will not be taking place. We are sorry for any inconvenience (and disappointment!) but will endeavour to reschedule the event.

All welcome | Free to attend | First come, first served at the door

‘I have never wanted a communion of souls. It’s already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.’

To mark the centenary of her birth, we’re discussing Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net. As both a philosopher and a novelist, Murdoch wanted to ‘really exploit the advantages (instead of as hitherto simply suffer the disadvantages) of having a mind on the borders of philosophy, literature, and politics’, and her first novel, Under the Net, is a comic meditation on everything from the nature of truth to living a moral life.

At the Philosophers’ Book Club, we select a work of fiction or biography for philosophical dissection by our panel. Although you are encouraged read the book in advance, it is by no means necessary.

Speakers
Lucy Bolton, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, QMUL

Clare Mac Cumhaill, Assistant Professor in Department of Philosophy, Durham University

Rachael Wiseman, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool

Chair
Shahidha Bari, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy and Professor of Fashion Cultures, UAL