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

• Autore: Mittleman Alan
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Hope; Hope - Religious aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Hope in a Democratic age
• ISBN: 1-282-34644-X; 9786612346446; 0-19-155922-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465546203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II