Review Essay of Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devestation
This is small review essay of Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope . Published in 2006, it's book whose themes - cultural devastation and hope - only really seem to have grown in pertinence since its publication. I was introduced to this book only two years ago, in a talk given a professor who was enthusiastically giddy over it, and finally, after letting that charge of excitement stew in me since, I've managed to get around it. In fact it's the second book of Lear I've now read, after thoroughly enjoying his Happiness, Death, and the Reminder of Life, a fantastic contemporary reckoning with the Freudian death drive as read though (and against) an Aristotelian lens. Bad news is that in comparison, Radical Hope ... has problems. As I hope you'll read below! There’s a story that Jonathan Lear tells here about the young Crow medicine man, Wraps His Tail. It’s a story incidental to the book, one mobilised in the course of narrating the life of his preferred ...