Deviation into Sense: The Nature of Explanation, by O.S. WAUCHOPE, 1948, London, FABER & FABER
The following text is from the front and back flaps of the jacket of the first edition of this book. I presume it was written by T. S. Eliot, then director of the literary division of Faber & Faber. What an irony of history that Eliot, who four years earlier (1944) had rejected George Orwell's manuscript of “Animal Farm,” would promote the publication of this strange book in which a pig appears in the final chapter. It must have taken a lot of courage for the publisher to publish such an antiquated philosophy book in London, the center of English philosophy at the height of analytic philosophy at that time. After all, Gilbert Ryle's “The Concept of Mind” was published in 1949, the following year, to great acclaim. If it had not been for the fortuitous chance that Wauchope's manuscript for this book was brought to Faber & Faber, where the rebellious poet T.S. Eliot was director of the literary department, the book would never have seen the light of day. And if Motohiro Fukase, a scholar of English literature who includes Eliot, had not happened to come into possession of this book, it would never have been translated into Japanese. And Koichi Yasunaga, who was greatly influenced by Wauchope, would not have been able to produce a series of works on the subject. Hisao Nakai described Koichi Yasunaga as follows. “...... Yasunaga will be rediscovered ...... many times in the future.” One can't help but wonder at the strangeness of the human world.
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