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A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear
Category: unmapped | Series: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Vanity Fair has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama's United States is an "irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human. It forces us to experience disruptions in our habitual ways o ...Show more
Freud by Jonathan Lear
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The Routledge Philosophers
In this fully revised and updated second edition, Jonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nat ...Show more
Imagining the End - Mourning and the Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have failed us, the projects that have run into the sand, the loves we have lost, the attachments ...Show more
Radical Hope by LEAR JONATHAN
Category: History
Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened."It is precisely this point-that of a ...Show more
Wisdom Won from Illness - Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry--psychoanalysis and moral philosophy--that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live. Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient Greek p ...Show more
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