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  • Aristotle

    The Desire to Understand

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like to be intelligible; ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Guerrilla Teaching

    Revolutionary tactics for teachers on the ground, in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Guerrilla Teaching is a revolution. Not a flag-waving, drum-beating revolution, but an underground revolution, a classroom revolution. It's not about changing policy or influencing government; it's about doing what you know to be right, regardless of what you're told. It's sound advice for people on the ground: people in real classrooms, working with real children, trying to make a real difference ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fifty-Minute Hour

    by Robert Lindner ...
    “A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the imagination. . . . No student’s education in psychotherapy is complete without reading this book. Decades after its original publication, it still stands as a pioneering landmark in the history ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Monkey-Proof Box

    Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is a manifesto on how to dismantle the curriculum we're told to deliver and construct in its place the curriculum we need to deliver.A group of monkeys. A box full of nuts. A lever. A chute. The monkeys excitedly poke at the box with rocks ... nothing ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Monkey-Proof Box

    Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Written by Jonathan Lear, The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence is a manifesto on how to dismantle the curriculum we're told to deliver and construct in its place the curriculum we need to deliver.A group of monkeys. A box full of nuts. A lever. A chute. The monkeys excitedly poke at the box with rocks ... nothing ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freud

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    In this fully updated second edition, the author 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. These include the philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, rationality, the nature of the self and subjectivity, and ethics and religion. He also considers some of the deeper issues and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Radical Hope

    Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story—up to a certain point. “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,” he said, “and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.” It is precisely this point—that of a people faced with the end of their way of life—that prompts the philosophical and ethical ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • Open Minded

    Working Out the Logic of the Soul

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    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 ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Imagining the End

    Mourning and Ethical Life

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book“A deeply insightful and thought-enriching work by one of the most original philosophers writing today. Imagining the End is acutely aware of the danger we stand in of finding ourselves on an uninhabitable planet. But Lear is also aware of how the consciousness of impending loss can bring out the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A Case for Irony

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Series series The Tanner lectures on human values
    In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America’s heart to ask how might we dispose ourselves if we came to feel our way of life was coming to an end. Here, he mobilizes a squad of philosophers and a psychoanalyst ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Wisdom Won from Illness

    Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

    by Jonathan Lear ...
    Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry—psychoanalysis and moral philosophy—that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis for engaged ethical thought about how to live.Jonathan Lear begins by looking to the ancient Greek philosophers for insight into what constitutes the life well lived. Socrates said the human psyche ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Force of Argument

    Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley

    Edited by Jonathan Lear, Alex Oliver ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic; he has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection; and his debunking work on the theory of descriptions is a tour de force. In this volume, an international roster of contributors ... Read more

    $79.99 USD