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In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on whic...
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...
Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people fac...
In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an...
The Desire to Understand
This is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Arist...
Mourning and Ethical Life
Jonathan Lear’s insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end—that is, the purpose—of living. How to persist in the face of planet...
Aristotle was the first and one of the greatest logicians. He not only devised the first system of formal logic, but also raised many fundamental prob...
Working Out the Logic of the Soul
Freud is discredited, so we donÕt have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders,...
An Earnest Plea for Irony
This book discusses how to write about the process of psychic change without betraying either love or science. It investigates the concepts of subject...
A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis
"Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freud`s texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psych...
Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Can reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jon...
This book is at once a passionate and a rigorously argued exploration of the value of psychoanalysis, the nature of the individual, and the power of l...
In this 1988 book, Professor Lear introduces Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts....
A New Look At An Old Idea
List of Contributors. Introduction. Martin Jay. Reification and Recognition: A New Look at an Old Idea. Axel Honneth. Comments. Judith Butler. Raymond...
Revolutionary tactics for teachers on the ground, in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference
Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It's not about ...
A Plea for Irony
Annotation. This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians ...
The Apsáalooke people, also known as the Crow, are noted for their bravery and artistry, twin pillars of a centuries-old culture rooted in the landsc...