Language Lost and Found takes as its starting‎-point Iris Murdoch‎'‎s claim that ‎"‎we have suffered a general loss of concepts‎.‎‎"‎ By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch‎'‎s philosophy in the light of this difficulty‎,‎ it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguistic community and the roots of the thought that some philosophical problems arise due to our having lost the sense of our own language‎.‎ But it is also a call for a radical reconsideration of how philosophy and literature relate to each other on a general level and in Murdoch‎'‎s authorship in particular‎.‎