Gary Browning is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK where he is also Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.

Introduction
1. Murdoch and Modernity
2. Philosophy: Plato and the Good
3. The Modern Self in Search of Itself
4. The Good
5. The Time of the Angels: Religion After the Death of God
6. Politics in a Post-ideological World
7. Art After Realism
8. The Life and Times of Murdoch
Bibliography
Index