LEADER 02870nam 2200517 450 001 9910467321303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-22025-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300220254 035 $a(CKB)4100000008421902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5788783 035 $a(DE-B1597)534711 035 $a(OCoLC)1114792877 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300220254 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5788783 035 $a(OCoLC)1104726980 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008421902 100 $a20190626d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHope without optimism /$fTerry Eagleton 210 1$aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$cYale University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) 225 0 $aPage-barbour lectures 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-21712-9 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The Banality of Optimism --$t2. What is Hope? --$t3. The Philosopher of Hope --$t4. Hope Against Hope --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires reflection and commitment, arises from clear-sighted rationality, can be cultivated by practice and self-discipline, and which acknowledges but refuses to capitulate to the realities of failure and defeat. Authentic hope is indubitably tragic, yet Eagleton also argues for its radical implications as 'a species of permanent revolution, whose enemy is as much political complacency as metaphysical despair'. It is a means of facing the future without devaluing the moment or obviating the past. Traversing centuries of thought about the many modes of hoping - from Ernst Bloch's monumental work through the Stoics, Aquinas, Marx and Kierkegaard, among others - this penetrating book throws new light on religious faith and political ideology as well as issues such as the problem of evil, the role of language and the meaning of the past. Hope Without Optimism is a brilliantly engaged, impassioned chronicle of human belief and desire in an increasingly uncertain world. 606 $aHope 606 $aOptimism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHope. 615 0$aOptimism. 676 $a128 700 $aEagleton$b Terry$f1943-$0123654 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467321303321 996 $aHope without optimism$92453369 997 $aUNINA