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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965886603321

Autore

Mittleman Alan

Titolo

Hope in a Democratic age : philosophy, religion, and political theory / / Alan Mittleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0191559229

9780191559228

0-19-170083-5

0-19-155922-9

9786612346446

0-19-160885-8

1-282-34644-X

Descrizione fisica

viii, 298 p

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Hope

Hope - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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 Hope -- Stanley 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

A compelling new philosophical study of hope as a resource for the tasks of citizenship in a liberal, democratic society. It contends that the modern philosophical construction of hope as an emotion is deficient; it reconstructs the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue in a contemporary philosophical idiom.