Hope without optimism /

Hope without optimism /

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Author / Creator:	Eagleton, Terry, 1943- author.
Imprint:	Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 160 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Page-Barbour lectures for 2014 Page-Barbour lectures ; 2014.
Subject:	Hope. Optimism. Hope. Optimism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12592253

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ISBN:	9780813937359 0813937353 9780813937342 0813937345
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Eagleton "considers the least regarded of the virtues. His ... meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life's course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of rationalization than a reliable lens on reality, reflecting the cast of one's temperament in place of true discernment. Eagleton turns then to hope, probing the meaning of this familiar but elusive word: Is it an emotion? How does it differ from desire? Does it fetishize the future?"--Dust jacket flap
Other form:	Print version: Eagleton, Terry, 1943- Hope without optimism. Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2015] 9780813937342

Table of Contents:

The banality of optimism
What is hope?
The philosopher of hope
Hope against hope.