Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values) - Hardcover

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But 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 attempted to ground ethical life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn't understand what happiness is any better than we do. Happiness became an enigmatic, always unattainable, means of seducing humankind into living an ethical life. Freud fared no better when he tried to ground human striving, aggression, and destructiveness in the death drive, like Aristotle attributing purpose where none exists. Neither overarching principle can guide or govern 'the remainder of life,' in which our inherently disruptive unconscious moves in breaks and swerves to affect who and how we are. Lear exposes this tendency to self-disruption for what it is: an opening, an opportunity for new possibilities. His insights have profound consequences not only for analysis but for our understanding of civilization and its discontent." [jacket copy] "Today, the domain of psychology is hopelessly split between the 'high' theory, caught in its expert language, and the popular self-help manuals addressing people's actual crises and dilemmas. The miracle of Lear's book is that he effortlessly unites these two seemingly incompatible dimensions. Through the most stringent conceptual analysis of the basic notions of the Freudian edifice, he asks the simple crucial questions that gnaw us all: What is happiness? How does psychoanalysis enable us to orient ourselves in today's reality?"---Slavoj Zizek. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, handsome & intact jacket illustrated w/bright Kandinsky landscape. See also my listing RUB1523 for Lear's OPEN MINDED: WORKING OUT THE LOGIC OF THE SOUL. Artikel-Nr. RUB1515

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