Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life
Book Details
- Publisher : Harvard U.P.
- Published : 2001
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 17563
- ISBN 13 : 9780674006744
- ISBN 10 : 0674006747
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Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud both offered disparate pictures of the human condition. This book analyzes these thinkers' theories of human behaviour in terms of a higher principle - whether happiness or death, and concludes that neither can govern "the remainder of life".
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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.
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