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

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.
Description:xiv, 221 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:At the interface/Probing the boundaries ; v. 67
At the interface/probing the boundaries. Hope
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 67.
At the interface/probing the boundaries. Hope.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8156670
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Varying Form of Title:Philosophies, cultures and politics of possibility and doubt
Other authors / contributors:Horrigan, Janet.
Wiltse, Ed
ISBN:9789042030091 (pbk.)
9042030097 (pbk.)
Notes:This book stems from a conference entitled: Hope: Probing the Boundaries, held in September 2006 in Oxford, England.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Janet Horrigan and Ed Wiltse
  • From the concept of hope to the principle of hope / Nicholas H. Smith
  • Hope and its incongruence with evil / Ioannis S. Christodoulou
  • Wishful Hoping / Roland Bluhm
  • Reflections on a broken world : Gabriel Marcel and William James on despair, hope and desire / Rosa Slegers
  • Hope in theory and praxis : from Adorno's Negative dialects to Benjamin's Divine Violence / Fotini Vaki
  • Hope as the conscious action towards an open future / Iris Meyer
  • Hope when the game is over : the effect of exploitation on athletes / Janet Horrigan
  • Hope for the invisible women of India : disability, gender and the concepts of karma and shakti in the Indian weltanschauung / Shilpa Das
  • Hoping for and against hope : lived experiences of hyphenated dislocated identities / Veena Balsawer & Xiaolin Rebecca Feng
  • Beyond anticolonial hope and postcolonial despair : a chicana-feminist reconfiguration / Juan D. Mah y Busch
  • The affective politics of insurgent hope / Lia Haro
  • Hope across the razor wire : student-inmate reading groups at Monroe correctional facility / Ed Wiltse.