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Jonathan Lear Department of Philosophy University of Chicago January 23, 2009 Friday, 3:30pm-5:00pm Wardlaw College, room 126 Contemporary conceptions of irony are a diminished form of an older conception which has largely been lost from view. This paper will try to recover what that older conception is, it will give an account of how it got lost in modernity, and it will try to show how this older conception is of ethical significance. NOTE: The Classics In Contemporary Perspectives Initiative meets next on Friday, January 23, 12:00-2:00 (Thomas Cooper Library, Room 204). Thanks to Justin Weinberg, we will be joined at that meeting by Jonathan Lear of the Department of Philosophy and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Please join us, if you can. Our January meeting will be devoted to "workshopping" a paper of his on the allegory of the cave in Plato's Republic, book 7. I will circulate his paper a week before our meeting. At the meeting, one of our participants will take ten minutes or so to put some questions to Lear's paper and then, if he wishes, Lear will briefly address those questions. The rest of our time together will be spent discussing the paper and the material from Republic 7 on which it draws so please read Lear's piece and Republic 7 if you plan to attend the discussion. Lear is trained as a philosopher and a psychoanalyst and he has written compellingly on the culture, philosophy, politics, and psychology of the classical world. Please feel free to share this invitation with interested colleagues and graduate students. Thank you, Jill Frank |
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