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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mittleman, Alan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hope.

Hope--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 298 p.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0191559229

9780191559228

0-19-170083-5

0-19-155922-9

9786612346446

0-19-160885-8

1-282-34644-X

OCLC:

646874344