Philosophy and Literature with Iris Murdoch and Bryan Magee (1977)
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2017
- The areas in which philosophy and literature overlap are examined in this program by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Oxford novelist Iris Murdoch. Style and structure in philosophical writing are compared and contrasted with those in literature. The narrative abilities of Plato, Schopenhauer, and Kant are examined. Philosophy’s predilection for accepting only literature that supports its theories is discussed as a source of antagonism between the two disciplines.
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I have a Master's in English literature and have a published book of poems and also written articles on art appreciation.Valued a modern writer like D .H Lawrence and have read all of Iris Murdoch particularly after she got the Nobel prize.Her 'Diary of Mary Somers ' meant so much to me.
I taught English ,both language and literature at High School level for 24 years in leading Indian public schools.My mother was a professor of Western philosophy so I did some reading of them
This is a fascinating podcast for literrateurs like me.Thank you.
Bryan Magee 1930-2019 R.I.P
Didn't know he'd died. R.I.P. A wonderfully lucid communicator.
Thank you, Dame Iris Murdoch, for everything.
She suddenly comes alive on art and the moral - always brilliant🔥
I cannot imagine any television networks making these sort of programs these days. It is rather depressing, because 1980's is rather recent for some of us. At that time we were worried about dumbing down of culture & yet there were still plenty of high brow culture covered by main stream media. In retrospect 1980s may have been the last era in which high culture would have any part to play in television.
Maybe this sort of discussion programme isn't playing to televisions strengths and as such , with the diversification of media, has shifted elsewhere. I don't see this as some great shame or dumbing down. There is plenty of great television being made nowadays; I think the best of the 2010s in regards to drama and documentary television comfortably stacks up to that of the 1980s. As for philosophical discussion programmes browse itunes or indeed youtube, I promise you you're unlikely to exhaust either of them. Granted it's a slight bonus to see Bryan Magee and Iris Murdoch as they talk but as soon as I'm finished writing this reply I'll probably turn to another screen and continue listening as though it were a podcast.
I stumbled onto Bryan Magee, definitely the most elucidating and clarifying videos on philosophy that I know of.
@@thomastereszkiewicz2241 I cannot think of another quite so good at interviewing as well as so highly qualified in the field. I recommend to you one of his books called Confessions of a Philosopher.
I couldn’t disagree with you more. Although it’s difficult to find programmes such as this that deal with the history of ideas full on, our screens are now awash with commercial long form television dramas from the late 90’s through to now that deal explicitly with philosophical enquiry head-on. Programmes such as Westworld, The Sopranos, Oz, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Wire, and even Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead incorporate complex discussions about ethics, civics, freedom, aesthetics, identity, meaning and language in ways that bring ideas to a generation who’ve shown that they’re more than up to the task.
@@markofsaltburn I think you're right on, the new age has brought if not more ideas and culture from more great minds, especially through the internet. It's only the saturation that comes with it which is greater than its growth, the same saturation that misleds people into assumptions. Culture growth and change is unaffected by this, and rears its head if you look for it.
27:00 Defeats her on this point (philosophical ideas in novels)
Iris glares at him, but then throws her head back laughing and declares "Yes, alright"
Very enjoyable
Magee always manages to frame his questions with great clarity, but without condescending to the putative audience, who are assumed to be reasonably intelligent and educated.
“Fortunately artists don’t pay too much attention to philosophers” 😹👍
She is the best
Iris was nearly 60 when she gave this interview and looks about 40!
Great conversation. Thank you.
Shakespeare's works emit the "breath of tolerance" alongside many other emissions, to include the breath of intolerance and of contempt.
anything better to hear but literature & philosophy
God bless them both
A lovely conversation ❤
She was mystical. Like Anscombe.
Mimetic is a great word!
you could almost include bf skinner in this list of philospher/writer with his "waldon two"
True that most students look for 'rules' and 'solutions' but, they should be brave and leave thoughts hanging, just exposed...🙂
I'm reading a book called "Existentialists and Mystics -- Writings on Philosophy and Literature" "by" Iris Murdoch, edited by Peter Conradi, which has in it what purports to be a transcript of this interview with Bryan Magee. But the sentences are different; many words are added or deleted or changed. It's almost as if someone decided that the actual interview wasn't polished or "eloquent" enough and the editors made changes. Or is it possible that Iris Murdoch got the transcript and modified to her own writing standards? Does anyone out there know?
I’d like to look into this as well
To offer some additional information, Bryan himself did publish all the transcripts of these interviews into two books called "Talking Philosophy" and "The Great Philosophers"
It might be possible, Iris recognized the value in the interview and adapted the transcript.
Or, and this is also likely, that she just has had an unchanged stance or position on the subject.
Gore Vidal for instance talked about politics much the same way in the later quarter of his life.
Yes, you are correct, and the answer to your question can be found in the Preface of the same book:
"It was decided to start the volume with Iris Murdoch's conversation with the philosopher and broadcaster Bryan Magee, originally show on BBC television in 1978, but substantially reworked by Iris Murdoch before publication." p. xxix
@@ianfryer Thank you! I guess I didn't read the preface! I often don't, depending.
Answering Thomas Chinaski here. I have listened the introduction of Bryan Magee again and it´s mind-blowing to see from our perspective of the 21st century how strong his gender-hole was when speaking of great philosophers that were great writers. He did not cite any single woman at all, while citing Saint Thomas Aquina, he forgets Hildegard von Bingen and Santa Teresa de Ávila.
Ignorance is something that affects us all in various degrees. Sometimes we are conscient and sometimes not. We can´t pretend to know the whole human reality in its complexity and what has happened in all cultures and in all times, especially nowadays. Our knowledge of reality is fragmented and biased in a way, that it is as if we were condemned to think and speak wrongly about everything that interests us.
Therefore, we tend to speak about what we know, our culture, our language, our gender, our tradition and the canon we learned in younger years...and then make a generalization of this particular experience, forgetting other experiences, other languages, the other gender, other possible canons we never learned in our youth and other cultures. We rarely speak about what we don´t know although this is an interesting subject of imagination.
As Magee was speaking here other great women philosophers had already been recognized as great writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Angela Davis and other Americans, French and Germanophone ones.
As for literary writers of the 19th century in England and the USA, we have already some examples of very brilliant women writing excellent poems and novels then. I am not the best one here to cite them and I am sure that the cultured reader in his or her native culture will remember them easily.
As for other traditions, cultures, historic times and languages there are names too we could cite. I would cite in my humble ignorance of all things past and present, Murasaki Shikibu in Japan, Lubna of Córdoba, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Sor Juana Isabel de la Cruz, French, Italian, German female writers and of other cultures which I can only imagine.
What is interesting here is to notice the level of internalization of this biased gender-canon, not only in Magee but also in a respectable female philosopher and writer, Iris Murdoch. Another striking Aspekt of this interview is to see Mrs. Murdoch´s attire and compare it with what we see on TV nowadays in women in general. I have seen a very respectable American female philosopher giving a lecture with bare arms showing her respectable gym-trained muscles and if I compare it with Mrs. Murdoch here, then I have to conclude that I prefer Murdoch´s style and that the old times were also better in at least this sense.
5:33 It is vast and multifarious, the question is partially of comparison
or of the opposite
They are there to those to whom they are there
One wonders what Iris would have made of Gogglebox.
what was the book they said they liked?
Sartre's novel Nausea
Eagleton would definitely refute you both.
Oh, you know Jimbo Eagleton too, do you? Funny enough, I went to Jimmy's service station to fill up the car here in Lompoc just last week, and he says to me, he says: 'Trev, I could refute you both!' and I says: 'Whooooa, Jim! Ain't there a problem with singularity versus plurality here to begin with?' And Jim (you know what he's like) says to me: 'Well King Pretzel told the world I could 'bout a year ago now.' Well, we just looked at each other for a while, and I says, I says: ' Um...yes, all right. Perhaps it's just that I feel in myself...'
Odd to hear an Irish philosopher talk about great philosophers or Art and not even mention Edmund Burke ...
On first viewing I didnt like this,,but the more I watch it the better it is, She is so hostile to the novel of ideas,She says she has,,,an abhorrent horror of putting theories as such into a book ,Yet elsewhere she says she puts philosophy into her novels because she knows about philosophy,,but not about sailing ships This is contradictory, I like her modesty and honesty, She says,,,,we are not anything like as good as the great C19 novelists, I think her philosophy books are excellent,,,she is very good on Plato,,and Simone Weil,
Regarding her re-characterization of her first statement against the novel of ideas, I think that she was backtracking because Magee expressed a contradictory point of view on its value. I don't know exactly what she was getting at by her original statement but I would surmise she was expressing dismay at the kind of novel that puts its theoretical concerns front and center instead of dramatizing a story with characters in a believable manner. The former is a sham kind of philosophical treatise masquerading as literary fiction. The author might as well have written an essay as a novel. Philosophical concerns should arise from a particular situation in a work of fiction in a natural, unforced manner.
dimitrovajunkie ahh so nice to read genuinely good conversions. Very nice.
Yis.
Kant is a lousy writer 😄. Harsh critique of the great sage of Konigsberg, hehehe 😄
Magee clear? Not really, not a good interviewer at all. Is there a real interest what Murdoch thinks or wants to think? The interviews are always overprepared to fit in the TV schedule, that thinkers hardly get the space to roam, and Magee functions as some kind of railway track. It's false clarity. Clarity is only interesting is when there is real obscurity first, a territory he doesn't dare to go. Pretty horrible actually, cliche'd, and bad philosophy in fact. Any seminar in this format would be a disaster. In Britain philosophy is always confused with being smart, but then the world is filled with people being smart but without proper talent to explore, test and be courageous in thinking. Great though that some Brits, like Murdoch, have been rereading Plato.