John Hanwell Riker
John Hanwell Riker has been an award-winning professor of philosophy at Colorado College since 1968 and has published four books. He was the Kohut Distinguished Professor at the University of Chicago in 2003.
Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
Shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud demands a reconceptualisation of 'moral agency' and 'responsibility' - and even of morality itself. Riker develops a new moral... (more)
Why It Is Good to Be Good: Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology and Modern Society
John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good... (more)
Exploring the Life of the Soul: Philosophical Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Self Psychology
In this book, John Hanwell Riker develops and expands the conceptual framework of self psychology in order to offer contemporary readers a naturalistic ground for adopting an ethical way of being in... (more)
Kohut's Self Psychology for a Fractured World: New Ways of Understanding the Self and Human Community
Drawing from Kohut's conceptualisation of self, Riker sets out how contemporary America's formulation of persons as autonomous, self-sufficient individuals is deeply injurious to the development of a... (more)