LEADER 04164nam 22005415 450 001 9910154632803321 005 20231207162105.0 010 $a0-674-97363-1 010 $a0-674-97360-7 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674973602 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4771929 035 $a(DE-B1597)502325 035 $a(OCoLC)966446245 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674973602 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971634 100 $a20180924d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWisdom won from illness $eessays in philosophy and psychoanalysis /$fJonathan Lear 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (339 pages) 311 $a0-674-96784-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. Wisdom Won From Illness --$tChapter Two. Integrating The Nonrational Soul --$tChapter Three. What Is A Crisis Of Intelligibility? --$tChapter Four. A Lost Conception Of Irony --$tChapter Five. Waiting For The Barbarians --$tChapter Six. The Ironic Creativity Of Socratic Doubt --$tChapter Seven. Rosalind?S Pregnancy --$tChapter Eight. Technique And Final Cause In Psychoanalysis --$tChapter Nine. Jumping From The Couch --$tChapter Ten. Eros And Development --$tChapter Eleven. Mourning And Moral Psychology --$tChapter Twelve. Allegory And Myth In Plato?S Republic --$tChapter Thirteen. The Psychic Efficacy Of Plato?S Cave --$tChapter Fourteen. The Ethical Thought Of J. M. Coetzee --$tChapter Fifteen. Not At Home In Gilead --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aWhat is the appropriate relation of human reason to the human psyche--indeed, to human life--taken as a whole? The essays in this volume range over literature and ethics, psychoanalysis, social theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. But, from different angles, they all address this question. Wisdom Won from Illness probes deep into the heart of psychoanalysis to understand how it illuminates the human condition. At the same time it goes back to the origins of psychological thinking in ancient Greece--and the effort to understand the ethical life of human beings. It examines the continuing travails of the Crow Nation in its efforts to find ways to live after cultural catastrophe. It probes the deep meaning of Kierkegaard's irony. It also considers two of the great writers of our time--John Coetzee and Marilynne Robinson--and their use of literature to change the human mind. Socrates thought reason should rule over the whole psyche; but much hangs on what we might mean by this claim. We humans have inflicted unimaginable suffering on each other, justified by arrogant conceptions of reason, and of ruling. The same is true of our treatment of other animals. False images of reason regularly blind us to the claims and reality of others. One way to react to all this pain and destruction is to denounce the very idea of reason as nothing more than an ideological tool of power. This book argues that is the wrong way to go. We should not be too quick to dismiss our real human capacities just because they have so often been put to such poor uses. The essays in this book aim to offer a philosophical anthropology and psychology that is adequate to who we are--and who we might legitimately hope to become.--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPsychoanalysis and philosophy 606 $aReason 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aPhilosophy and social sciences 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and philosophy. 615 0$aReason. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aPhilosophy and social sciences. 676 $a150.19/5 700 $aLear$b Jonathan$0170234 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154632803321 996 $aWisdom Won from Illness$92890272 997 $aUNINA