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Wisdom Won from Illness
Jonathan LearCan reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life.
A Case for Irony
Jonathan LearJoan Didion has lamented that Obama’s United States is an “irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human.
Freud
Jonathan LearJonathan Lear clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact.
Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation ...
Jonathan Lear"Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freuds texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psychoanalytic theory irrelevant. For any student of those texts this book is indispensable.
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life
Jonathan LearBut if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart.
Aristotle: The Desire to Understand
Jonathan LearThis is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started.
Aristotle and Logical Theory
Jonathan LearDr Lear explores Aristotle's philosophy of logic through logical consequence, validity and proof.
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide
Susan Elizabeth FarrellIn A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transplants the tragedy of King Lear to the Cook family farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, in 1979. The Lear story is retold through the eyes of Lear's oldest daughter, Goneril, who, in the Shakespeare play, is one ...
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul
Jonathan LearExplores the relationship between philosophers' and psychoanalysts' attempts to discover how man thinks and perceives himself
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Jonathan LearThis is a vulnerability that affects us all--insofar as we are all inhabitants of a civilization, and civilizations are themselves vulnerable to historical forces. How should we live with this vulnerability?
Freud
Jonathan LearThe second edition includes a new Introduction and Conclusion. The text is revised throughout, including new sections on psychological structure and object relations and on Freud’s critique of religion and morality.
Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony
Jonathan LearThis book, then, is not merely about the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis--it is an enactment of conceptual therapy.
William Shakespeare: 'King Lear'
John LennardThis book aims to introduce students (including those with little or no prior experience of the field) to the worlds of Shakespeare and his theatre revealed in King Lear.
Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark ...
Chris LearWhat they managed to achieve in the face of such adversity is the stuff of legend and glory. In Running with the Buffaloes, writer Chris Lear follows the University of Colorado cross country team during one unforgettable NCAA season.
Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists ...
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The Natural History of Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Robert McCracken PeckIn that golden age of colour-plate books, an era still celebrated for the great volumes created by John James Audubon and John Gould, Lear created some of the most spectacular natural history illustrations ever published.
Sharing the Years
Linda Lear ShofnerLinda Lear Shofner. Sharing the Years Sharing the Years Linda Lear Shofner Sharing the Years Sharing the Years Linda Lear Shofner Book. Front Cover.
Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Environmentalism
Scott GillamLinda Lear. Rachel Carson: WitnessforNature. New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1997. 227. 4. Rachel Carson. Silent Spring. 40th anniversary ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. 297. 5. Linda Lear. Rachel Carson: WitnessforNature. New York ...
Memory and Cognition in Learning:
Jonathan HallsJonathan Halls. VOL. 31 • ISSUE 1405 • MAY 2014 AUTHORS Jonathan Halls Jonathan Halls has a hybrid professional background spanning corporate learning and professional media. He now teaches at George Washington University and ...
Ophthalmology: Expert Consult: Online and Print
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Evil Fairies Love Hair
Mary G. ThompsonAlfred Tompkins and Pat Greaney. Beat up said Pat Greaney. Beat up own cousin, complainant Jonathan Yeager. Stole personal possessions of Jonathan Yeager, most egregiously said Jonathan's BB gun. Shot Jonathan with his own BB gun.
The Alcoholic
Jonathan AmesJonathan A. is a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic and, of course, entirely fictional novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life writer Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, ...
Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening
Jonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards Philip F. Gura. Loyalty: If such as these stand at a Distance, at such a Time, it will be much more taken Notice of, and will awaken the Princes Jealousy and Displeasure much more, than such a Behaviour in the common ...
The works of Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan EdwardsON hi The name of Jonathan Edwards is held in profound veneration by thinking men of all parties ; and this universal homage, when contrasted with the obscurity of his life and the peculiarities of his opinions, is one, among a thousand proofs ...
Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England: ,
Stephen A. MariniTwo Shaker adherents — Zac- cheus Stevens (£120) and Jonathan Wetherbee ( £116) — were among this group. In addition, a number of other Shakers of substantial worth appeared on the 1781 list, including Jonathan Clark (£71), Jonathan ...
Jonathan Edwards and the Psalms: A Redemptive-Historical ...
David P. Barshinger49 At the very least, as Jonathan Yeager explains, “the overwhelming majority declares that we can no longer speak of ... Jonathan M. Yeager, Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine (New York: Oxford University ...
A Thousand Pardons
Jonathan DeePraise for Jonathan Dee: 'A deliciously sophisticated engine of literary darkness.' Jonathan Franzen. 'Dee is graceful; articulate and perceptive, and often hilariously funny... full of elegance, vitality and complexity.' New York Times.
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