Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul - Softcover

Lear, Jonathan

 
9780674455344: Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674455347 ISBN 13: 9780674455344
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674455347
ISBN 13 
9780674455344
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
356

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Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1998
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