ABSTRACT
Iris Murdoch is highly critical of aspects of Hegel’s philosophy, which she sees as markedly different from her own style of philosophising. However, there are connections between Murdoch’s philosophy and Hegel’s. Notably Murdoch’s phenomenological focus upon experience and her engagement with metaphysics in a post-metaphysical age link to Hegel’s phenomenology and his post-Kantian form of metaphysics. Mutual recognition and misrecognition figure in both their philosophies. Hence, Murdoch’s repudiation of what she takes to be Hegel’s absolutism, and her own affiliation of aspects of Hegel’s philosophy are significant in assessing relations between the philosophies of Hegel and Murdoch.
