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Miles Leeson

@miles_leeson

Director of the @IrisMurdoch Research Centre at @humanities_chi. Lead Editor of the IM Review; Series Editor of 'Iris Murdoch Today' with @Palgrave.

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“Attentive use of the imagination is, unlike fantasy, not a way to escape the world into a daydream but the route by which we become positive agents within the world,” argues Miles Leeson. | iai.tv/articles/imagi… Tap to read more about Leeson’s exploration of Iris Murdoch’s

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New Iris Murdoch Podcast! In this episode we celebrate the 60th anniversary of her ninth novel, The Red and The Green. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

New <a href="/IrisMurdoch/">Iris Murdoch</a> Podcast! In this episode we celebrate the 60th anniversary of her ninth novel, The Red and The Green.

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New Iris Murdoch podcast episode! I'm joined by Michela Dianetti and Lucy Elvis from @unigalway to discuss Murdoch and Public Philosophy. soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

New <a href="/IrisMurdoch/">Iris Murdoch</a> podcast episode! I'm joined by <a href="/MichelaDianetti/">Michela Dianetti</a> and Lucy Elvis from @unigalway to discuss Murdoch and Public Philosophy.

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A new podcast on Iris Murdoch's 'A Year of Birds' (poetry) has just been released! Featuring Miles Leeson in conversation with Ash/Ear Read This is on Blue Sky. open.spotify.com/episode/6vSuIf…

A new podcast on Iris Murdoch's  'A Year of Birds' (poetry) has just been released! Featuring <a href="/miles_leeson/">Miles Leeson</a> in conversation with <a href="/earreadthis/">Ash/Ear Read This is on Blue Sky</a>.

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Now available to pre-order! The first collection on Iris Murdoch's theological thinking in decades. Huge thanks to all our contributors and Palgrave Philosophy for the support. Out in July. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…

Now available to pre-order! The first collection on <a href="/IrisMurdoch/">Iris Murdoch</a>'s theological thinking in decades. Huge thanks to all our contributors and <a href="/PalgravePhil/">Palgrave Philosophy</a> for the support. Out in July.

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Join us at Honors for a Lunch & Lecture on Wednesday, April 23 at 1 p.m. with Dr. Miles Leeson, director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester. RSVP by April 17 at: thehonorscollege.com/iris to learn more about this major 20th century writer.

Join us at Honors for a Lunch &amp; Lecture on Wednesday, April 23 at 1 p.m. with Dr. Miles Leeson, director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester.

RSVP by April 17 at: thehonorscollege.com/iris to learn more about this major 20th century writer.
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The Easter Rebellion against British rule began #OTD 1916. Iris Murdoch describes its eve as tension mounts through rain-soaked Dublin streets; and if, in the end, death disperses most of the people, this is felt to be as inevitable as in a Sophoclean play.

The Easter Rebellion against British rule began #OTD 1916. Iris Murdoch describes its eve as tension mounts through rain-soaked Dublin streets; and if, in the end, death disperses most of the people, this is felt to be as inevitable as in a Sophoclean play.
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New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! I talk to Lucy Hunter Oulton about her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Wild Imagination: Nature and the Environment' which is published today from Palgrave Macmillan. soundcloud.com/user-548804258… Palgrave Philosophy

New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! I talk to <a href="/LucyOulton/">Lucy Hunter Oulton</a> about her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Wild Imagination: Nature and the Environment' which is published today from <a href="/Palgrave/">Palgrave Macmillan</a>.

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New Iris Murdoch Podcast Episode! We're starting a new miniseries of episodes reading the entirety of 'Existentialists and Mystics' - her collected non-fiction - over the course of the next year or so. Join us on the journey... soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

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'Learned people, intellectuals, have lost their confidence, their kind of protest is being esoteric. And at the other end it's smashing things. There's a gap where the theories ought to be, where the thinking ought to be.' Iris Murdoch, 1987

'Learned people, intellectuals, have lost their confidence, their kind of protest is being esoteric. And at the other end it's smashing things. There's a gap where the theories ought to be, where the thinking ought to be.'

<a href="/IrisMurdoch/">Iris Murdoch</a>, 1987