The Selected Writings of Maurice O’Connor Drury: On Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Religion and Psychiatry PDF
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The SelecTed WriTingS of Maurice o’connor drury Maurice O’Connor Drury, photographed by Wittgenstein in 1936 when he visited Drury in Dublin together with Francis Skinner. The next day we were in Woolworth’s for some purchases. Wittgenstein noticed some cheap little cameras: ‘What fun it would be to take some snaps of each other’. So he insisted on buying three cameras one for each of us. (Cons., p. 110) Wittgenstein kept this photo of Drury together with a great number of other photos he had taken which were given to Ben Richards after Wittgenstein’s death by Elizabeth Anscombe. This image is now part and copyright of the Wittgenstein Archive Cambridge, reprinted here with their kind permission. Source: Michael Nedo also available from Bloomsbury: Applying Wittgenstein Rupert Read (edited by Laura Cook) Beauty and the End of Art: Wittgenstein, Plurality and Perception Sonia Sedivy Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips Mikel Burley Portraits of Wittgenstein edited by F. A. Flowers III and Ian Ground The SelecTed WriTingS of Maurice o’connor drury ON WiTTgENSTEiN, PhiLOSOPhy, RELigiON AND PSy ChiATRy Maurice O’Connor Drury Edited and introduced by John Hayes Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Estate of Maurice O’Connor Drury, 2017 The estate of Maurice O’Connor Drury has asserted its right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as Authors of the relevant parts of this work, as and where identified. Editorial content and Introduction © John Hayes, 2017 John Hayes has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the Editor of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the editor. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4742-5636-0 ePDF: 978-1-4742-5638-4 ePub: 978-1-4742-5637-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com. Here you will find extracts, author interviews, details of forthcoming events and the option to sign up for our newsletters. This volume is dedicated to the memory of Paul Drury (1957-2015) for deepening understanding and enabling action. Ar dheis lámh Dé go raibh a anam dílis in poverty…and in the other misfortunes men think friends are the only refuge. Moreover, the young need it to keep them from error. The old need it to care for them and support the actions that fail because of weakness. And those in their prime need it, to do fine action; for “when two go together”, they are more capable of understanding and acting. (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1155a, 11-16. Terence irwin, trans. (indianapolis, indiana: hackett, 1985)) vi CONTENTS Foreword, by ray Monk ix PreFace xiii acknowledgeMents xix abbreviations xxiii Part i drury and Wittgenstein: Kindred Souls by John Hayes 1 Part ii drury’s recollections of Wittgenstein 87 Contribution to a BBC Symposium 89 Conversations with Wittgenstein 93 Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein 149 Part iii drury’s Philosophical Writings 165 The Method of Philosophy 171 Letters to a Student of Philosophy 178 Six Reflections shared with Rush Rhees 208 02 March 1959 208 28 March 1959 209 Spring 1966 212 21 June 1966 220 17 October 1967 221 08 November 1967 222 University College Dublin Lecture: 1967 224 Letter to Rush Rhees 232 16 October 1966 232 Part iV drury on religion 235 Letters to Rhees 238 22 May 1958 238 09 June 1958 238 09 March 1964 239 22 April 1967 240 15 May 1967 241 12 June 1968 242 02 October 1968 242 viii CONTENTS 11 September 1969 243 06 October 1970 245 31 May 1971 246 15 June 1971 247 23 April 1974 248 Undated Letter Extract 250 Letter to D.Z. Phillips: 23 July 1964 251 Part V drury on Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology 253 The Danger of Words 255 Review of Danger of Words by Ilham Dilman 330 Correspondence and Comment 351 Letters to Rhees 354 22 September 1959 354 10 May 1969 354 24 January 1970 355 18 June 1970 356 30 July 1970 357 introductory Lectures on hypnosis 358 Counsel to Townsend 404 Part Vi Biographical and historical notes 407 index 435 FOREWORD By ray MonK Maurice Drury’s two articles, ‘Some Notes on Conversations with Wittgenstein’ and ‘Conversations with Wittgenstein’ (both included in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections, edited by Rush Rhees) made such a strong impression on me that i remember exactly where and when i first read them. it was in the autumn of 1982 and i was on a bus from London to Oxford, returning from a weekend of seeing friends and book shopping. i was then a postgraduate student of philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford, and had started work on a dissertation on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics. i had been fascinated with Wittgenstein since i was a teenager, when i first read Norman Malcolm’s memoir of him, and during my undergraduate days my interests had become focussed on logic and the philosophy of mathematics, and in particular Wittgenstein’s work on those subjects. Curiously, my work on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics had taken me in the direction of biography, because i had become more and more conscious of the fact that the Wittgenstein that emerges from the enormous secondary literature on him, especially the commentary on his philosophy of mathematics, was not the man whose intense and charismatic personality leaps off the pages of Malcolm’s book. The tempestuous, tortured genius Malcolm describes had somehow been transformed into an Oxford don, the biting wit, startling metaphors and burning passion of his prose somehow translated into the discrete, moderate muted tone of a typical academic article. This, i thought, was not the man who had originally aroused my interest. i was therefore captivated to be told in the preface to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections that Drury had begun an earlier draft of his longer article with this statement: The number of introductions to and commentaries on Wittgenstein’s philosophy is steadily increasing. yet to one of his former pupils something that was central in his thinking is not being said. Kierkegaard told a bitter parable about the effects of his writings. he said he felt like the theatre manager who runs on the stage to warn the audience of a fire. But they take his appearance as all part of the farce they are enjoying, and the louder he shouts the more they applaud. Forty years ago Wittgenstein’s teaching came to me as a warning against certain intellectual and spiritual dangers by which i was strongly tempted. These dangers still surround us. it would be a tragedy if well meaning commentators
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