Jonathan Lear
Born1948
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Main interests

Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and served as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago from 2014 to 2022.[1]

Education and career

Lear was educated at Yale and Cambridge, and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Rockefeller University with a dissertation on Aristotle's logic directed by Saul Kripke. He also trained at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. He subsequently won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for Psychoanalysis three times for work that advances psychoanalysis.

Before moving to Chicago permanently in 1996, Lear taught philosophy at Cambridge University (1979-1985), where he was a Fellow of Clare College and Yale University (1978–79, 1985-1996). He is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In 2009, he received the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities.[2] In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

Philosophical work

Much of his work involves the intersection of psychoanalysis and philosophy. In addition to work involving Sigmund Freud, he has also written widely on Aristotle, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein, focusing on ideas of the human psyche.

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)
  • A Case for Irony (2011)
  • Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2017)
  • The Idea of a Philosophical Anthropology: The Spinoza Lectures (2017)
  • Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life (2022)[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Jonathan Lear named Roman Family Director of Neubauer Collegium". 6 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Mellon Foundation award to fund Lear's ongoing work on human imagination". 26 March 2010.
  3. ↑ "Newly Elected Fellows". Archived from the original on 2016-04-24.
  4. ↑ Reviewed at: Griffiths, Paul J. (January 2023). "Mourned or lamented?". Commonweal. 150 (1): 54–56.

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