Niklas Forsberg is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has previously written on Wittgenstein, Cavell, Murdoch, Austin and Derrida.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Apparent Paradoxes
1.1 The Received View and its Complications 24
1.2 Approaching "The Black Prince" 36
1.3 Localizing Murdoch 52
1.4 A Fatty Pâté and a Plateful of Cherries: On Nussbaum (on Literature) 64
1.5. The Commonplaceness of the Approach 75
1.6 Preparatory Summary: The Appearance of Paradox 90
Chapter 2
How to Make a Mirror
2.1 Murdoch on Art and Literature and Love 94
2.2 What is a Mirror? 128
2.3 Wittgenstein and the Difficulty of Acknowledging Illusions of Sense 135
2.4 Kierkegaard and Grammatical Illusions 144
2.5 Mirroring Illusions: The Thought of the Indirect Communication 152
2.6 Inheriting Wittgenstein (and Kierkegaard) 161
Chapter 3
Sensing a Sense Lost
3.1 Loss of Concepts, Loss of Questions 191
3.2 Contrasting Pictures of the Human 215
3.3 Vision over Choice 230
3.4 Making Pictures (Perfectionism and Vision) 235
Chapter 4
Reading The Black Prince
4.1 "Murdoch's Most Self-Consciously Platonic Kierkegaardian Love Story"
257
4.2 In the Context of Bradley Pearson's Form of Life 269
4.3 Passing Verdict: Who did it? 302
4.4 In Disagreement with Oneself: A Failure to Mean 310
Chapter 5
What is it Like to Be a Corpse?
5.1 Introduction: Running Out of Arguments? 318
5.2 Costello's Speechlessness and Diamond's Concerns 321
5.3 The Exemplary Bat 334
5.4 Understanding Deflection 343
5.5 Concluding Remarks 355
Chapter 6
Smashing Mirrors, Collecting the Pieces, Returning Our Words
6.1 The Concept of a Concept and the Loss of Concepts 358
6.2 Smashing Mirrors, Returning to the Ordinary 371
6.3 Literature, Distance and the Return of Our Words 376
Bibliography 389
