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Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear, the author of Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, teaches philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Selected bibliography

  • Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006)
  • Freud (2005)
  • Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony (2003)
  • Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life (2000)
  • Open-Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1998)
  • Love and Its Place in Nature: Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis (1992)
  • Aristotle: The Desire to Understand (1988)

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