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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previously unpublished archival sources.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.
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