The HPS Departmental Seminar this week (25 April) features our own Professor John Forrester, speaking on
"Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge" (abstract below). Thursday 25th at 4.30pm in Seminar Room 2 as usual (with tea at 4pm in Seminar Room 1). ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the very different responses of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein to the work of Sigmund Freud in the period 1917-55, concentrating mainly on the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Russell's response was very much typical of his contemporaries, both in his scepticism and his enthusiasm, and also reflected his political and educational projects as much as his philosophical preoccupations. Wittgenstein, on the other hand, turned out to be a true Freudian, fiercely critical and under his spell. Wittgenstein's response, and the quasi-Freudian reading by early-20th century philosophers of Wittgenstein himself, give us a new insight into the origins of analytic philosophy in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Best, Jeremy ------ Jeremy Butterfield: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Butterfield Homepage: http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/butterfield/ Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Tel: 01223 761524 (office); 07557-668413 (mobile); NB: new mobile number. Visit the journal, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13552198 _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
