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LLEWELYN_01.qxp_Layout 1 29/04/2015 12:19 Page 1 Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus John Llewelyn Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus To Margaret Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus JOHN LLEWELYN © John Llewelyn, 2015 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun - Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ www.euppublishing.com Typeset in 11/13pt Monotype Ehrhardt by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 0894 3 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 0895 0 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 0896 7 (epub) The right of John Llewelyn to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Contents Acknowledgements vi Part I 1 The Crux 3 2 Instress Scaped and Inscape Stressed 10 3 Parsing the Poem of Parmenides 19 4 Hopkins’ Double Discovery, of Scotus and of Himself 30 5 Some Transcendentals 43 6 Another Transcendental? 54 Part II 7 Seeming, Observing and Observance 69 8 Peirce’s Post-Kantian Categories 79 9 Ecceity, Ipseity and Existents 90 10 Being as Doing 99 11 From Method of Ignorance to Way of Love 108 12 Categories and Transcendentals Transcended 117 Afterword 127 Notes 132 Selective Bibliography 143 Index 147 Acknowledgements Approximately a quarter of Chapter 11 is adapted with kind permission from my ‘Educated Ignorance’, in Gavin Morrison and Sigrid Sandström (eds), Ignorance: Between Knowing and Not Knowing (Stockholm: Axl Books, 2015). I thank Channel 4, the estate of Dennis Potter and Faber & Faber for permission to cite the sentences from Dennis Potter reproduced in Chapter 2. The sentences cited in Chapter 7 from The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer & Diaries are reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd ©1967, 1969, 2010, J. A. Baker. For permission to use on the cover of this book a photograph of the sculpture at Duns by Frank Tritschler representing Scotus I thank the Franciscan Order, which com- missioned the effigy to mark the seventh centenary of the philosopher’s birth. I am especially grateful to Fr Boniface Kruger, OFM, and to Andrew Tulloch of the Scottish Borders Council for helping me toward an answer to the question whether Frank Tritschler is still living. For the photograph of the bust of Scotus on the cover I am indebted to Colin Brydon. For permission to use on the cover a photograph of the sculpture at Regis University, Denver, Colorado, representing Hopkins I thank the sculptor Rowan Gillespie. He suggested I get in touch with Professor Victoria MaCabe of that university. I am indebted to her for broadening the field of photographs from which to choose. I thank all those at or asso- ciated with Edinburgh University Press who have cooperated in the pro- duction of my study, in particular Carol Macdonald, James Dale, Rebecca Mackenzie, Holly Roberts and Anthony Mercer. I am grateful to the staff of the National Library of Scotland, of the libraries of the University of Edinburgh and of New College on the Mound for their assistance. For the encouragement conveyed by their interest in my endeavour notwithstand- ing in some cases our disagreement over some of its presuppositions, I vi Acknowledgements thank Gareth Davies, Percy Jack, Donald Maciver, Basil O’Neill, Adriaan Peperzak and certain other generously supportive good friends who in the arcane conventions of book publication are supposed to remain unpublic and unthanked. For hauling me out of technological quagmires or the slough of despondent morale I am indebted to my brothers David and Howard, to my nephews Simon and Steven, and to the Morningside Caffè Nero. With gratitude for her sustained and sustaining dedication to me, I dedicate this book to my wife Margaret who, birdwatcher like Hopkins and wordwatcher like him and Duns Scotus, is proof of their teaching that loveliness is a noun with a verb at its heart dancing like she does in mine. vii What becomes of my verses I care little, but about things like this, what I write or could write on philosophical matters, I do; and the reason of the difference is that the verses stand or fall by their simple selves and, though being read they might do good, by being unread they do no harm; but if the other things are unsaid right they will be said by somebody else wrong, and that is what will not let me rest. Gerard Manley Hopkins writing to Richard Watson Dixon from Dublin 27 January 1887 Yet ah! this air I gather and release He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what He haunted who of all men most sways my spirit to peace Gerard Manley Hopkins in ‘Duns Scotus’s Oxford’ composed at Oxford March 1879
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