Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul

Lear, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0674455347 / ISBN 13: 9780674455344

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1999

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674455347
• ISBN-13: 9780674455344
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Acceptable

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Inhaltsangabe

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 contemporary culture, knowingness has taken the place of thought. This book is a spirited assault on that deadening trend, especially as it affects our deepest attempts to understand the human psyche-in philosophy and psychoanalysis. It explodes the widespread notion that we already know the problems and proper methods in these fields and so no longer need to ask crucial questions about the structure of human subjectivity.

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Jonathan Lear is John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His works include Wisdom Won from Illness, Radical Hope, A Case for Irony, and Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life.