Murdoch on Heidegger

In his Preface to _Existentialists and Mystics_ , Peter Conradi states:
"[Iris Murdoch's] most recent work-in-progress, as yet unfinished, is a
weighty study of Heidegger."

There are some tantalizing passages about Heidegger (and about writing and
thinking about him) in Murdoch's last published (in 1995) novel _Jackson's
Dilemma_.  One wonders how much of what is written there represents
Murdoch's own thoughts and feelings about (writing and thinking about)
Heidegger - and the state of her own project.  Eg.:

	He had made a great many notes, many with
	question marks, in fact his book so far consisted
	largely of notes, unconnected and unexplained.
	Benet found himself accusing himself of being
	fascinated by a certain dangerous aspect of
	Heidegger which was in fact so deeply buried
	in his own, Benet's, soul that he could not
	scrutinise or even dislodge it. Of course Benet
	admired _Sein und Zeit_ and loved (perhaps
	this was the point) the attractive image of
	Man as the Shepherd of Being.  Later Heidegger
	 he detested; Heidegger's sickening acceptance
	of Hitler, his misuse of the Pre-Socratic Greeks,
	 his betrayal of his early religious picture of man
	opening the door to Being, his transformation of
	Being into a cruel ruthless fate, his appropriation
	of poor innocent Hoelderlin, his poeticisation of
	philosophy, discarding truth, goodness, freedom,
	love, the individual, everything which the philosopher
	 ought to explain and defend. "

Does anyone know what has happened to the work-in-progress which Conradi
mentions?  Has any of it been published, or are there any plans for it to
be published?

- Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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