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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-02 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Can reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear
Open Minded
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Pages: 356
Authors: Jonathan Lear
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 do
Radical Hope
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Jonathan Lear
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 th
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life
Language: en
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Authors: Jonathan Lear
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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
The Wisdom of Mental Illness
Language: en
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Authors: Jez Hughes
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This book explores how the ancient path of shamanism can help us to understand the nature of mental illness, recasting psychological breakdown as a potentially