03288nam 2200613 a 450 991046554620332120200520144314.01-282-34644-X97866123464460-19-155922-9(CKB)2560000000300794(EBL)472329(OCoLC)646874344(SSID)ssj0000298850(PQKBManifestationID)11204705(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298850(PQKBWorkID)10238033(PQKB)11612298(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022906(MiAaPQ)EBC472329(Au-PeEL)EBL472329(CaPaEBR)ebr10351349(CaONFJC)MIL234644(EXLCZ)99256000000030079420081128d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHope in a Democratic age[electronic resource] philosophy, religion, and political theory /Alan MittlemanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (307 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-929715-0 0-19-170083-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-281) and indexes.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 RidgeWalter 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; ZHow 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 bHopeHopeReligious aspectsElectronic books.Hope.HopeReligious aspects.128Mittleman Alan871473MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465546203321Hope in a Democratic age1945495UNINA