Jonathan Lear Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Exploring the intersection of mortality and purpose, the book delves into how individuals can endure amidst global crises and cultural decline. Jonathan Lear emphasizes mourning as a pathway to resilience and growth, drawing inspiration from moral exemplars to illuminate the potential for goodness in challenging times. Through this reflective journey, the narrative encourages readers to confront despair while seeking meaningful existence.

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 planetary catastrophe and the realization that even cultures can die? Lear sees in mourning an avenue of thriving and turns to a handful of moral exemplars to refine our sense of the good we can yet achieve.

Auf Grundlage der Anthropologie und Geschichte der nordamerikanischen Ureinwohner sowie mittels Philosophie und psychoanalytischer Theorie erforscht Jonathan Lear die Geschichte des Volkes der Crow im Angesicht der kulturellen Zerstörung. Sein Buch ist eine tiefschürfende und höchst originelle philosophische Studie über eine eigentümliche Verletzlichkeit, die den Kern der conditio humana betrifft. Wie sollen wir mit der Möglichkeit umgehen, dass unsere eigene Kultur zusammenbrechen könnte, wie mit dieser Verwundbarkeit leben? Ist es sinnvoll, sich einer solchen Herausforderung mutig zu stellen?

Exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, the book examines whether reason can integrate the nonrational aspects of the psyche into a comprehensive understanding of humanity. Jonathan Lear argues that without addressing this integration, philosophy loses its connection to real human experiences. The work serves as a foundation for ethical considerations on how to live, emphasizing the importance of understanding both rational and nonrational elements of the human condition.

Filosofický úvod do Aristotelova myšlení. Jeho autor si volí stejné východisko jako sám Aristotelés, který v první větě své Metafysiky tvrdí, že všechny lidské bytosti touží svojí přirozeností po porozumění. Avšak co pro nás znamená, že jsme v tomto světě vedeni touto touhou? Co znamená, že nějaký tvor má svoji přirozenost? Co je naše, lidská, přirozenost? Jaký musí být svět, je-li poznáván rozumem, a jací musíme být my, máme-li mu systematicky porozumět? Zkoumáním těchto otázek nás Jonnathan Lear uvádí do podstaty Aristotelovy filosofie a prová-zí nás ústředními pasážemi jeho Fyziky, Metafyziky, Etiky, Poli-tiky, jeho biologických a logických spisů. Kniha je psána jasným stylem, jímž chce autor přimět čtenáře k aktivní účasti. Může se stát podnětným úvodem pro všechny studenty filosofie a pro široký okruh zájemců o Aristotela, tohoto giganta západních duchovních dějin.

Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution.

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 of tuning out of life, but comes with a cost.

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 faced with the end of their way of life.

Notre époque est dominée par le mythe de la transparence : de la sociologie aux neurosciences en passant par l'économie, tout concourt à réduire nos comportements à des explications rationnelles. Pourtant, à trop vouloir rationaliser, ne perdons-nous pas de vue l'humain ? Au-delà des schémas de la raison, demeure pour nous une question essentielle : "Comment vivre ?", ainsi que la nécessité d'y répondre. C'est justement l'objet de la psychanalyse : en renonçant à la rationalité, Freud a relevé le pari de nous aider à mieux vivre. Loin d'être invalidées, ses intuitions sur l'inconscient sont aujourd'hui en passe d'être confirmées par les découvertes de la neurobiologie. C'est pourquoi nous ne pouvons pas ignorer Freud. Par son approche transversale, parfois iconoclaste, ce livre s'applique à nous montrer comment les concepts de la psychanalyse gardent toute leur actualité. À travers cette introduction philosophique, Jonathan Lear nous ramène à l'essentiel de nos préoccupations sur le bonheur, la liberté et les valeurs.

In this fully revised and 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. Essential reading for anyone in the humanities, social sciences and beyond.

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--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart. Aristotle attempted to ground ethical life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn't understand what happiness is any better than we do. Happiness became an enigmatic, always unattainable, means of seducing humankind into living an ethical life. Freud fared no better when he tried to ground human striving, aggression, and destructiveness in the death drive, like Aristotle attributing purpose where none exists. Neither overarching principle can guide or govern "the remainder of life," in which our inherently disruptive unconscious moves in breaks and swerves to affect who and how we are. Lear exposes this tendency to self-disruption for what it is: an opening, an opportunity for new possibilities. His insights have profound consequences not only for analysis but for our understanding of civilization and its discontent.

"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 - whether happiness or death - the pictures fall apart. Aristotle attempted to ground ethical life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn't understand what happiness is any better than we do. Freud fared no better when he tried to ground human striving, aggression, and destructiveness in the death drive."--Jacket

Offers an examination of Freud's thought as it applies to the development of the individual and the power of love

Professor Lear introduces Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. This 1988 book is written in a direct, lucid style which engages the reader with the themes in an active, participatory manner.

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 logical consequence, validity and proof can contribute to contemporary debates in the philosophy of logic. No background knowledge of Aristotle is assumed.