Nicholas Mosley & Philosophy
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When completed, this page will outline links between Nicholas Mosley's writings and specific issues in philosophy. It will also help to explain why this site is called "metameta."
Nicholas Mosley, London 1981
   I came upon Mosley's books in 1975, first reading the novel Accident, which is about a philosopher who is contending with crises in his career and in his personal life. Leaving aside the reasons for my personal interest in Mosley's themes, his unusual reflexive style was the most exciting development I had seen in contemporary fiction: it was an effort to affect the reader's style of self-consciousness.
Nicholas Mosley, British Columbia 1988Nicholas Mosley Sussex 1991
   There also seemed to be parallels between our meta-philosophical views: Mosley was well aware of the limitations of philosophical language and style and was suggesting that consciousness and potential relationships between attitudes and events might best be examined through fiction, while as a philosopher I had been mainly concerned with ways in which philosophers, trying to be precise, had inadvertently relied upon the devices of informal language and fiction.
Frame of NM's film The Policeman's Mother - Mosley seeing two reflections of himself in a mirror, looking Stalinesque. In January 1978, after reading all of Mosley's books which I could find - and all that I could find that had been written about him, which was very little - I wrote to him, suggesting a writing project. His warm reply initiated a long and nourishing - what he would call - "working relationship."
 
 
 

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