Jonathan Lear - Böcker

Vad skulle hända med oss om våra kollektiva livsvillkor förändrades drastiskt? Om de föreställningar, möjligheter och ritualer som strukturerar vår tillvaro tömdes på relevans eller till och med begriplighet och våra invanda liv blev mer eller min...

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Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his storyup 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 n...

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A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction 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 th...

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"Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freuds texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psychoanalytic theory irrelevant. For any student of those texts this book is indispensable."...

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This book discusses how to write about the process of psychic change without betraying either love or science. It investigates the concepts of subjectivity and objectivity that are appropriate for psychoanalysts, the concepts of internalization an...

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Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotles syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assert...

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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 which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, ...

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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 which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, ...

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This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts of their practice. It investigates the concepts o...

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This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts of their practice. It investigates the concepts o...

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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 problems in the philosophy of logic. In this book, Dr Lear shows how Aristotle's discussion of logica...

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This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animat...

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Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principlewhether...

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Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "e;When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,"e; he said, "e;and they could not lift them ...

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Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle-wheth...

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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 "e;irony-free zone."e; Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's...

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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 "e;irony-free zone."e; Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's...

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Freud is discredited, so we don't have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look too closely at their thinking either. In fact, everywhere we look in con...

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A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book"e;Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted ti...

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A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times i...

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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 "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into Americas he...

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Freud is discredited, so we dont have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we dont have to look too closely at their thinking either. In fact, everywhere we look in conte...

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Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquirypsychoanalysis and moral philosophythat seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live. Jo...

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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.J...

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This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animat...

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Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle's syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between asser...

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Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle's syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between asser...

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Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotles syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assert...

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This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animat...

Läs mer »

In this fully updated second edition, the author 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 ...

Läs mer »