Maurice O'Connor Drury

The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury: On Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Religion and Psychiatry

Herausgeber: Hayes, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher. The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicine. Central to the collection is the Danger of Words, the 1973 text described by Ray Monk as 'the most truly Wittgensteinian book published by any of Wittgenstein's students'. Through notes on conversations with Wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with Rush Rhees, Drury gives shape to what he had learned from Wittgenstein. Whether discussing philosophy, Simone Weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of Wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatry. Alongside a foreword by Monk and an introduction presenting a new biography of Drury, analysing the relationship between him and Wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sources. Beautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of Wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9781350091542
• ISBN-10: 1350091545
• Artikelnr.: 52822306

Autorenporträt

Maurice O¿Connor Drury

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword, by Ray Monk Abbreviations Preface I. Drury and Wittgenstein: Kindred Souls by John Hayes II. Recollections of Wittgenstein
Contribution to a BBC Symposium
Conversations with Wittgenstein
Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein III. Philosophical Writings
Methods of Philosophy Lecture: 1935
Letters to a Student of Philosophy: 1954
Six Reflections Shared with Rush Rhees
University College Dublin Lecture: 1967
Letter to Rush Rhees IV. On Religion
Letters to Rhees
Undated Letter Extract
Letter to D.Z. Phillips: 23 July 1964 V. On Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology
The Danger of Words
Review of Danger of Words by Ilham Dilman
Fact and Hypothesis
Letters to Rhees
Introductory Lectures on Hypnosis
Counsel to Townsend VI. Biographical & Historical Notes Index