Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

by Jonathan Lear

Book Overview

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 should be ruled by reason, and much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674967844
• ISBN13: 9780674967847
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"