Jonathan Lear (1948-2025): In Memoriam
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-29-2025
Published In
The Point
Abstract
Jonathan Lear, who died last month at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, was, in addition to being a distinguished professor in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and the author of several celebrated works of philosophy, a teacher and mentor for many of us at The Point. He was a member of our editorial board when the magazine was founded in 2009, and later contributed two essays. “Being remembered, mourned, honored is a persisting good,” he wrote in one of them, which later appeared in his final book, Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life. We agree, and have collected here remembrances from a few of his students, colleagues and friends.
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