Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.

Biography

He was educated at Yale, Cambridge, Rockefeller (where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy with a dissertation on Aristotle's logic supervised by Saul Kripke) and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Much of his work involves the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. In addition to work involving Freud, he has also written widely on Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein, focusing on ideas of the human psyche. He has won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for Psychoanalysis three times for work that advances psychoanalysis. Before moving to Chicago, Lear taught in the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of Clare College, and the Philosophy Department at Yale. He is married to Gabriel Richardson Lear, a fellow member of the philosophy department at Chicago who also works on ancient philosophy. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.

Works

His books include:
*"Aristotle and logical theory" (1980)
*"Aristotle: the desire to understand" (1988)
*"Love and its place in nature" (1990)
*"Open minded: working out the logic of the soul" (1998)
*"Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life" (2000)
*"Therapeutic action: an earnest plea for irony" (2003)
*"Freud" (2005)
*"Radical hope: ethics in the face of cultural devastation" (2006)

Sources

*http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/001116/lear.shtml
*http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/lear.html
*http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/04-05/event_lear.html

External links

* [http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/katz/20052006/jonathan_lear.html Audio and video of Jonathan Lear's 2006 lecture, "Shame and Courage at the Collapse of Civilization"]