On Dogs and Good: Iris Murdoch’s Animal Imagination
Dogs being exemplary in terms of empathic and selfless capabilities, it is no wonder Murdoch chose this species, in her novel-writing, as her totem ethical animal, as the counter-example to the ‘fat, relentless [human] ego’ (The Sovereignty of Good 52) exposed in her philosophy: ‘dogs are often figu...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/10137 |