British writer Murdoch (1919-99) is best known for her novels, but is increasingly being recognized as a major 20th-century philosopher as well. Laverty (philosophy and education, Columbia U.,
New York) argues that it is within the tradition of philosophical romanticism that she can best be seen reconciling the philosophical and poetic, synthesis and divergence as dialogical
necessities, Kant's Copernican Revolution and Platonist metaphysics, existentialism and Platonism, the artist and the saint, and Socrates and the virtuous peasant. Annotation 穢2008 Book News,
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