Zizek and Polls

[JKSCHW at aol.com]

Lear was a teacher of mine at Cambridge. He's a classical scholar, Aristotle expert, very smart. He writes quite well and clearly. His book, Aristotle: The Search for Underderstanding, is excellent and well-regarded. The new book looks interesting because it seems to be a "meaning of life" type book of sort philosophers rarely tackle. --jks

In a message dated Mon, 2 Oct 2000  8:32:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Peter K." <peterk at enteract.com> writes:

<< Anyone hear of Jonathan Lear? Of Lear's new
book, "Happiness, Death and the Remainder of
Life," Zizek sez,
"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. With envy and admiration, I
still wonder how Lear was able to do it."

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