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Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it.

Jonathan Lear

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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
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Jonathan Lear

Jonathan Lear

Born: October 9, 1948
Died: September 22, 2025 (aged 76)
Bio: Jonathan Lear was an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Known for:
  1. Radical Hope (2006)
  2. Aristotle (1988)
  3. A Case for Irony (2011)
  4. Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life (2000)

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