Theories of Hope - Exploring Alternative Affective Dimensions of Human Experience

Theories of Hope: Exploring Affective Dimensions of Human Experience explores the nature of hope from varied and diverse perspectives. This volume includes chapters examining hope within contexts of social and political philosophy, policy, and struggle from both deeply theoretical and practical approaches.

List of contents

Introduction, by Rochelle Green
Part I: Theory
Section One: Expanding the View of Hope from the Margins
Chapter 1. Faces of Hope, by Nancy Snow
Chapter 2. Secular Hopes in the Face of Death, by Luc Bovens

Section Two: Hope and Transgression
Chapter 3. Shame, Hope, and the Courage to Transgress, by Patrick Shade
Chapter 4. Redemptive Transgressions: The Dialectical Evolution of Hope and Freedom in the West, by Akiba Lerner

Part II: Application
Section Three: Hopes and Histories
Chapter 5. Historia Abscondita: Or, on Nietzsche, Hope, and History, by Allison Merrick
Chapter 6. Cultivating Hope in Feminist Political Praxis, by Rochelle Green

Section Four: Application and Policy Implementation
Chapter 7. Education and the Construction of Hope, by Darren Webb
Chapter 8. Hope, the Environment, and Moral Imagination, by Lisa Kretz

About the author

Edited by Rochelle M. Green - Contributions by Nancy Snow; Luc Bovens; Patrick Shade; Akiba Lerner; Allison Merrick; Rochelle M. Green; Darren Webb and Lisa Kretz

Summary

Theories of Hope: Exploring Affective Dimensions of Human Experience explores the nature of hope from varied and diverse perspectives. This volume includes chapters examining hope within contexts of social and political philosophy, policy, and struggle from both deeply theoretical and practical approaches.

Product details

• Authors: Rochelle Green, Rochelle M. Green
• Assisted by: Rochelle M. Green (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498563628
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6362-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social, group or collective psychology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism