Hope against hope : philosophies, cultures and politics of possibility and doubt /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 67 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 67.
Subject:	Hope. Hope. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226880

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Other authors / contributors:	Horrigan, Janet. Wiltse, Ed.
ISBN:	9789042030107 9042030100 9789042030091 9042030097
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	In September 2006, when 45 scholars and activists from 19 countries around the world gathered amid the spires and gargoyles of Oxford for a conference entitled, "Hope: Probing the Boundaries," complex dialectics of hope and despair circulated through the.
Other form:	Print version: Hope against hope. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010 9789042030091
Standard no.:	9786612727061

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART I Hope in Theory; From the Concept of Hope to the Principle of Hope; Hope and its Incongruence with Evil; Wishful Hoping; Reflections on a Broken World: Gabriel Marcel and William James on Despair, Hope and Desire; Hope in Theory and Praxis: From Adorno's Negative Dialects to Benjamin's 'Divine Violence'; Hope as the Conscious Action Towards an Open Future; PART II Hope in Action; Hope When the Game is Over: The Effect of Exploitation on Athletes.

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