Jonathan Lear, Author Harvard University Press $26 (189p) ISBN 978-0-674-00329-3
Originally presented at Harvard as a three-part Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Lear's (Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul) latest book meditates on life's meaning. ""What difference does psychoanalysis make,"" Lear asks at the outset, "
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Jonathan Lear, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (243p) ISBN 978-0-374-19236-5
In this heartfelt and scholarly treatise, Lear, chair of Yale's philosophy department and clinical associate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, takes up where Freud left off, following ``connections, insights, consequences of...
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Jonathan Lear, Author Harvard University Press $22.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-674-02329-1
Scholar and author Lear (Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony) decodes the courage and wisdom of the last great chief of the Crow peoples, Plenty Coups (1848-1932), in this ""philosophical anthropology"" which seeks to pin down the way...
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Jonathan Lear. Harvard Univ, $29.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-674-27259-0
University of Chicago philosophy professor Lear (Therapeutic Action) offers provocative reflections on flourishing in the face of existential and civilizational challenges. Drawing on psychoanalysis, American history, and ancient Greek philosophy,...
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