Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Embodied Mind and Vegetal Agency: The Good Apprentice
Iris Murdoch’s Wild Imagination 2025 Lucy Oulton
Iris Murdoch’s Wild Imagination returns to the land to focus more intently on Murdoch’s depictions of key moments of human interaction in landscape. With reference to The Good Apprentice, chapter 5 begins by charting Murdoch’s fascination, as a young philosopher, with the role of the body and sensory awareness as essential precursors to thought. It considers Murdoch’s early interest in the work...
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Phenomenology
Animism
Environmental philosophy
Material ecocriticism
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