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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465546203321

Autore

Mittleman Alan

Titolo

Hope in a Democratic age [[electronic resource] ] : philosophy, religion, and political theory / / Alan Mittleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-34644-X

9786612346446

0-19-155922-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Hope

Hope - Religious aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-281) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Character of Hope; 2. The Virtue of Hope; Aquinas: Hope as a Passion; Aquinas: Hope as a Virtue; Albo on Hope; After Aquinas and Albo; 3. The Negation of Hope; Ancients; Moderns; Spinoza; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche; 4. The Faith of Hope; Hope in the Hebrew Scriptures; Hope in Early Judaism; Hope in Early Christianity; Post-New Testament Development; 5. Philosophies of Hope; Condorcet; Kant; Bloch; Arendt; 6. Theologies of Hope; Hermann Cohen: Messianism as Politics; Franz Rosenzweig: Judaism as an Anti-politics; Martin Buber: Politics on the Narrow Ridge

Walter Rauschenbusch: The Social Gospel of HopeStanley Hauerwas: The Church as the Place of Hope; Jürgen Moltmann: A Political Theology of Hope; Catholicism on Hope and Politics: The Church in the Modern World; Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Hope; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics? Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme, contending that a modern construction of hope as an emotion is deficient. He revives the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue, reconstructing this in a contemporary philosophical idiom. In



this framework, hope is less a spontaneous reaction than it is a choice against despair; a decision to live with confidence and expectation, based on a rational assessment of possibility and a faith in the underlying goodness of life.In cultures shaped b

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910696743303321

Titolo

Determination of semivolatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in solids by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry [[electronic resource] /] / by Steven D. Zaugg ... [and others] ; prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey Office of Water Quality, National Water Quality Laboratory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va. : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2006

Descrizione fisica

vii, 44 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Techniques and methods ; ; 5-B3

Altri autori (Persone)

ZauggSteven D

Soggetti

Volatile organic compounds - Analysis

Polycyclic aromatic compounds - Analysis

Gas chromatography

Mass spectrometry

Solvent extraction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 14, 2008).

"Chapter 3, section B, Methods of the National Water Quality Laboratory, book 5, Laboratory analysis."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 42-43).