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Title Hope against hope : philosophies, cultures and politics of possibility and doubt / edited by Janet Horrigan and Ed Wiltse
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages)
Series At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 67
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 67.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Hope.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Hope
Form Electronic book
Author Horrigan, Janet.
Wiltse, Ed.
ISBN 9789042030107
9042030100