Iris Murdoch abandoned a six-year Heidegger book as Alzheimer’s set in

Evidence

Murdoch died on 8 February 1999, after living several years with Alzheimer’s disease; her last novel, Jackson’s Dilemma, shows signs of emerging symptoms. Around the time she was working on it, she decided to abandon a philosophical book called ‘Heidegger: the pursuit of Being’, on which she’d been engaged for six years. Typescript and manuscript versions remain, as disconnected assemblies of chapters of which just a few parts have been published posthumously. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 993

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which fragments of the abandoned Heidegger book have been published posthumously? Would be worth tracking down.