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Jonathan Lear

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#863

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#1661

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#378

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Logic

#609

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#1086

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#232

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According to Wikipedia, 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.

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Jonathan Lear's Published Works

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Published Works

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006) (210)
Aristotle: The Desire to Understand (1988) (199)
A Case for Irony (2011) (131)
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1998) (111)
Chile's Free-Market Miracle: A Second Look (1995) (103)
Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics (1982) (85)
Leaving the World Alone (1982) (77)
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life (2002) (77)
Love and Its Place in Nature (1990) (72)
Love and its place in nature : philosophical interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis (1992) (71)
Inside and outside the Republic (1999) (66)
Aristotle and logical theory (1980) (65)
The Disappearing ‘We’ (1984) (60)
Mexico City (1996) (55)
XII—Aristotelian Infinity (1980) (55)
Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City (2001) (54)
Sets and Semantics (1977) (35)
Aristotle: the desire to understand: The desire to understand (1988) (34)
The Introduction of Eros: Reflections on the Work of Hans Loewald (1996) (31)
Ethics, Mathematics and Relativism (1983) (28)
A Note on Zeno's Arrow (1981) (27)
Allegory and Myth in Plato's Republic (2008) (26)
Recombinant DNA: The Untold Story (1978) (25)
Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony (2003) (25)
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (1997) (19)
The Slippery Middle (2008) (18)
Working through the end of civilization (2007) (18)
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (2017) (17)
Chile's free-market : a second look (1995) (15)
The Force of Argument : Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley (2010) (14)
The Socratic Method and Psychoanalysis (2007) (13)
Avowal and Unfreedom (2004) (12)
Working in Chile's Free Market (1995) (12)
An interpretation of transference. (1993) (11)
Technique and final cause in psychoanalysis: Four ways of looking at one moment (2009) (10)
The Trajectory of Latin American Urban History (1998) (10)
Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940 (2017) (9)
Wisdom won from illness: The psychoanalytic grasp of human being (2014) (9)
Psychoanalysis and the idea of a moral psychology: memorial to Bernard Williams' philosophy (2004) (9)
Kepler's Dream (1965) (9)
The Contemporary Relevance of Ancient Logical Theory (1982) (9)
MOURNING AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY (2014) (9)
Integral Outsiders: The American Colony in Mexico City, 1876-1911 (review) (2002) (9)
3. Ethical Thought and the Problem of Communication: A Strategy for Reading Diary of a Bad Year (2010) (9)
Aristotle's Compactness Proof (1979) (8)
IV—Integrating the Non‐Rational Soul (2014) (8)
The idea of a moral psychology: The impact of psychoanalysis on philosophy in Britain1 (2003) (8)
Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931 (review) (2005) (7)
The difficulty of reality and a revolt against mourning (2018) (6)
Kepler's Dream: With the Full Text and Notes of Somnium, Sive Astronomia Lunaris, Joannis Kepleri (1965) (6)
The thought of Hans W. Loewald (2012) (6)
Jumping from the couch (2002) (5)
Jumping from the couch: an essay on phantasy and emotional structure. (2002) (5)
Free Market Miracle or Myth? Chile's Neo-Liberal Experiment (1996) (4)
What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility (2012) (4)
Essays on Plato's Psychology (2001) (4)
The Ironic Creativity of Socratic Doubt (2014) (3)
Representing Workers, the Workers Represented (2014) (3)
Transience and hope: A return to Freud in a time of pandemic (2021) (3)
Man's nature (1988) (3)
Retiring on the Free Market: Chile’s Privatized Social Security (2002) (3)
ON REFLECTION: THE LEGACY OF WITTGENSTEIN'S LATER PHILOSOPHY (1989) (3)
Chile's Privatization Experience (1991) (3)
The Call of Another’s Words (2014) (2)
Aristotle: the desire to understand: Ethics and the organization of desire (1988) (2)
Gettysburg Mourning (2018) (2)
Archimedean Desire: Commentary on Kirshner (2012) (2)
Striving for Rationality (2000) (2)
The Nowhere of Truth: Kierkegaard's Discourse on the Occasion of Confession (1845) (2014) (2)
Plato's Politics of Narcissism (1993) (2)
Encountering and speaking to the unconscious (2019) (2)
The Freudian Sabbath (2017) (1)
1. To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily (2011) (1)
Response to Hubert Dreyfus and Nancy Sherman (2009) (1)
Human Morality by Samuel Scheffler (1993) (1)
Open Minded (1999) (1)
The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890–1917. By Jeffrey M. Pilcher. (Albuquerque, N. Mex.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Pp.x, 245. $29.95.) (2009) (1)
Colloquium 3: The Efficacy of Myth in Plato’s Republic (2004) (1)
Jonathan Lear Responds to J. Todd Dean (2013) (1)
Aristotle: the desire to understand: Understanding the broad structure of reality (1988) (1)
Testing the limits: the place of tragedy in Aristotle's ethics (2018) (1)
The Fundamental Rule and Fundamental Value of Psychoanalysis (2015) (1)
A Freudian Naturalization of Kantian Philosophy (2019) (1)
Review of: A Peaceful And Working People: Manners, Morals, And Class Formation In Northern Mexico by William French (1997) (1)
Turkey and the Armenians (2006) (1)
Review of: Deference And Defiance In Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, And Revolution In Mexico, 1890-1950 by Michael Snodgrass (2006) (0)
Imagining the End (2022) (0)
Mourning and Melancholia (2015) (0)
Jonathan Lear on Abolishing Torture (2021) (0)
A Matter of Respect (2012) (0)
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (2007) (0)
Beyond the pleasure principle (2015) (0)
Reprints (1960) (0)
The Geography of Desire (1999) (0)
Transference as Worldiness (2018) (0)
Preaching to the Converted (1998) (0)
New Deal for Graduate Education. (1969) (0)
Self and Other (2015) (0)
Author of authors (2005) (0)
Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Irony (2018) (0)
The ﬁeld of dreams (2015) (0)
An adequate moral psychology (2015) (0)
The journey of a human life (2015) (0)
Red O'Shaughnessy, Our Friendship (2022) (0)
Letter from John Lear to Joshua Lederberg (1969) (0)
Turning away from reality (2015) (0)
Ironic Eros: Notes on a Fantastic Pregnancy (2015) (0)
Love as a Drive (2018) (0)
Truth in Psychoanalysis (2017) (0)
Will the Science Brain Bank Go Conglomerate. (1969) (0)
PHS volume 17 Cover and Front matter (1984) (0)
Virtue and neurtue (2015) (0)
Adorno (2021) (0)
Brief Encounter (2021) (0)
Millable PUs beat the heat (1987) (0)
The Meaning of Life: Aristotle's Pursuit of Happiness, Freud's Death Drive, and the Wealth of Other Possibilities in Between (2001) (0)
Revolutionary Politics and Popular Classes: Mexico City 1911-22 (1998) (0)
Labor Regime Change in the Mexican Revolution 329 (0)
The illusion of a future : the rhetoric of Freud’s critique of religious belief (2018) (0)
Review of: Labors Appropriate To Their Sex: Gender, Labor, And Politics In Urban Chile, 1900-1930 by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison (2004) (0)
Review of: Monuments Of Progress: Modernization And Public Health In Mexico City, 1876-1910 by Claudia Agostoni (2004) (0)
Aristotle: the desire to understand: Nature (1988) (0)
Mexico City: Popular Classes and Revolutionary Politics (2018) (0)
Review of: Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity by John Mraz (2010) (0)
Review of: Integral Outsiders: The American Colony In Mexico City, 1876-1911 by William Schell Jr. (2002) (0)
Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity. By John Mraz. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv, 344. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95 cloth; $23.95 paper. (2010) (0)
Reviews of Books:Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910 Claudia Agostoni (2004) (0)
2. Ironic Soul (2011) (0)
Freud : l'invention de l'inconscient (2006) (0)
Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground . By Julia E. Sweig. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 254. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95 cloth. (2004) (0)
Peter Winn, editor. Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002. Foreword by Paul Drake Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 423. cloth $89.95, paper $24.95 (2005) (0)
Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950 (2006) (0)
Moral Objectivity (1984) (0)
8. Flight from Irony A Response to Cora Diamond (2011) (0)
Working In Chiles Free-market (1995) (0)
Review of: Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic by Richard Warren (2003) (0)
Book Review: History: Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930 (2004) (0)
Imagination and Reason, Method and Mourning in Freudian Psychoanalysis (2018) (0)
Response to Letter to the Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2020) (0)
Labor Regime Change In The Mexican Revolution (Review of: Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923 by Jeffrey Bortz) (2010) (0)
Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (review) (2004) (0)
Review of: Inside The Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro And The Urban Underground by Julia E. Sweig (2004) (0)
6. The Immanence of Irony and the Efficacy of Fantasy A Response to Richard Moran (2011) (0)
Latin America's RE-turn to the Left: A Historical Perspective (2008) (0)
Sanpete Valley Clean Energy Project (2011) (0)
"¡No vamos a la Revolución!": Civilians as Revolucionarios and Revolucionados in the Mexican Revolution (2008) (0)
William H. Beezley and David E. Lorey (eds), ¡Viva Mexico! ¡Viva la independencia!: Celebrations of September 16, Wilmington, SR Books, 2001. (2002) (0)
4. Irony, Reflection, and Psychic Unity A Response to Christine Korsgaard (2011) (0)
A philosophical introduction to a non-philosopher (2015) (0)
Richard A. Warren, Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic (2003) (0)
Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity (review) (2010) (0)
Career Choices (2001) (0)
Review of: Working Women In Mexico City: Public Discourses And Material Conditions, 1879-1931 by Susie Porter (2005) (0)
Convention and Necessity (2009) (0)
:Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973–2002.Foreword by PaulDrake. (2005) (0)
10. Observing Ego and Social Voice A Response to Robert A. Paul (2011) (0)
the Mexican workers' organization the Casa del Obrero Mundial (1997) (0)
Review of: Victims Of The Chilean Miracle: Workers And Neoliberalism In The Pinochet Era, 1973- 2002 ed. Peter Winn (2005) (0)
정신분석의 근본 규칙과 근본 가치(The Fundamental Rule and Fundamental Value of Psychoanalysis) (2017) (0)
Review of: The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, And Meat In Mexico City, 1890–1917 by Jeffrey M. Pilcher (2009) (0)
Critical Response II. Difficulties with the Difficulty (2019) (0)
Freud and religion (2006) (0)
Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931. By Susie S. Porter. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 250. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00 cloth. (2005) (0)

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Love and Its Place in Nature