Jonathan Lear Quotes

Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, professor of philosophy, and Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. Wikipedia  

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Jonathan Lear Quotes

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

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (Harvard University Press: 2008), p. 103

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