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THE BELGUM LECTURES 2005 - 2006

Ethics and the Collapse of Civilization

The Lecturer: Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Chicago. Before joining The University of Chicago faculty, he was the Kingman Brewster Professor of the Humanities at Yale. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Cambridge and his Ph.D. at Rockefeller University. A graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, he is currently on the faculty of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Professor Lear has presented the prestigious Tanner Lectures at Cambridge University in 1999, the Richard B. Lippin Lectures in Ethics at Penn State in 2001, and the Donnellan Lectures at Trinity College, Dublin in 2005.

Among his publications are two winners of the Gradiva Award for the Best Psychoanalytic Book of the Year: Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1998) and Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life (2000). His other books include Aristotle and Logical Theory; Aristotle: the Desire to Understand; Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis; Therapeutic Action: an Earnest Plea for Irony; and Freud. He has published many articles in philosophy journals and collections as well as in journals devoted to psychoanalysis. In addition to these scholarly articles, he has published pieces in The New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review.