EAN: 9780674027466

RADICAL HOPE - JONATHAN LEAR KARTONIERT (TB)

Shortly before he died  Plenty Coups  the last great Chief of the Crow Nation  told his
story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the
ground " he said  "and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." It is
precisely this point-that of a people faced with the end of their way of life-that prompts the
philosophical and ethical inquiry pursued in Radical Hope . In Jonathan Lear's view  Plenty
Coups's story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us
all: how should one face the possibility that one's culture might collapse?  This is a
vulnerability that affects us all-insofar as we are all inhabitants of a civilization  and
civilizations are themselves vulnerable to historical forces. How should we live with this
vulnerability? Can we make any sense of facing up to such a challenge courageously? Using the
available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to
reservations  and drawing on philosophy and psychoanalytic theory  Lear explores the story of
the Crow Nation at an impasse as it bears upon these questions-and these questions as they bear
upon our own place in the world. His book is a deeply revealing  and deeply moving 
philosophical inquiry into a peculiar vulnerability that goes to the heart of the human
condition.

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