[tips] Frank Cioffi obit

2012-01-02 Thread Allen Esterson
A follow-up to Miguel's citing of the obituary for Robert Ader: The Wittgenstein and Freud scholar Frank Cioffi died suddenly a few days ago: http://simplycharly.squarespace.com/blog/2012/1/2/philosopher-frank-cioffi-dead-at-83.html Cioffi had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Freud's writings and

Re: [tips] Frank Cioffi obit

2012-01-02 Thread Allen Esterson
A postscript to my comments on Frank Cioffi: I can't resist quoting a characteristic comment he made in a caustic review in the philosophy journal *Inquiry* of Richard Wollheim's *Freud* in the Fontana Modern Masters series (still in print). This was published in 1972 at a time when it was