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Jonathan Lear

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October 09, 1948

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Philosophy, Psychology

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Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and served as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society from 2014 to 2022.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 2,547 ratings · 282 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation 3.88 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freud 4.06 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aristotle: The Desire to Understand 4.19 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis 4.10 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life 3.88 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life 3.63 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence 4.16 avg rating — 44 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Case for Irony 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guerrilla Teaching: Revolutionary tactics for teachers on the ground, in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it”
― Jonathan Lear

tags: courage, inspiration, vulnerability

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“if there were a genuine knight of faith in our midst we would be unlikely to recognize him: in terms of outward appearance, he is just another one of our neighbors taking a stroll in the park.”
― Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

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Jonathan Lear’s Followers (65)

Jonathan Lear

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