![]() Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (1915), trans. ![]() Murdoch, Sartre, Romantic Rationalist (1953 London: Collins Fontana, 1967), pp. References to structuralism (which Murdoch later oddly attributes to Derrida) are also to be found in the 1970s: see EM, pp. ![]() In her Romanes lecture (1976) Murdoch discusses Derrida in relation to the issue of voice and writing, which I suggest that The Black Prince illuminates: see Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), pp. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. 291), and so it is not an anachronism to suggest that there is some echo of Derrida’s thought in her 1973 novel. As will become clear, since that time she continually reflected on his works, which she calls ‘brilliant’ and ‘ difficult’ ( MGM, p. Though Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals was published in 1992, some 19 years after her novel, Murdoch tells us that she read Derrida’s early book Writing and Difference when it was published in 1967, and was ‘impressed and disturbed by it’ ( MGM, p. ![]() ![]() In this essay I intend to place a chapter of Iris Murdoch’s philosophical writing alongside one of her novels, juxtaposing her piece on Derrida and Structuralism’ from her book Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, with her novel The Black Prince, published in 1973. ![]()
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