Jonathan Lear

What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it

In an interview, Prof. Jonathan Lear discusses the cultural importance of irony

Apr 27, 2014

Salon

Insight By Surprise

Prof. Jonathan Lear makes the case for irony in his new book

Dec 22, 2011

Mellon Foundation award to fund Lear's ongoing work on human imagination

Mar 26, 2010

Freud Is Widely Taught at Universities, Except in the Psychology Department

Nov 27, 2007

2007 John Nuveen Lecture: Jonathan Lear

Apr 26, 2007

University of Chicago Chronicle

A Different Kind of Courage

Apr 9, 2007

The New York Review of Books

When your world collapses

Oct 14, 2006

The Globe and Mail

Returning to Freud for Help With the Riddles of Philosophy

Nov 4, 2000

King Lear

Oct 11, 2000

The Village Voice

Lear to join Social Thought

Feb 15, 1996

University of Chicago Chronicle