| Description |
1 online resource (x, 188 pages) |
| Series |
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 68 |
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 68.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The resilience of hope / Janette McDonald and Andrea M. Stephenson -- Theoretical questions and frameworks. On the rationality of hope, given naturalism / Michael W. Swanson -- Hope as a moral virtue / Nancy Billias -- Exercise of hope / Wendy O'Brien -- Where music plays and the sirens sing: hope and despair in George Steiner's Tragic vision / Ricardo Gil Soeiro -- The tension between ideological closure and hermeneutic openness in Ernest Bloch's Philosophy of hope / Salomon J. Terreblanche -- Construction of human identity: a vehicle for hope / Andrea M. Stephenson -- Between theory and praxis. Hoping to fear: the cathartic transformation of the civic community / Stephanie-Alice Baker -- Practical questions and frameworks. The principle of hope: relating to the European Union in rural Romania / Katy Fox -- Hope in Pandora's box: psychological work with medical patients / Sara Haramati -- Fear and hope: the relationships between traumatic stress symptoms and positive psychological impact following exposure to politically motivated violence / Shimon Shiri [and others] -- Hope or honor? A follow-up study of resilience in survivors from the 1985 famine in Ethiopia / Ellen Alexandra Lothe |
| Summary |
Hope: What is it? How do we get it? Is it part of being human? Is it something that carries us through hard times? Is it something illusory? This book, which stems from the 4th Inter-Disciplinary.net conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries held in September 2008 at Mansfield College in Oxford, England, explores all of these questions and many more. As a truly inter-disciplinary venture, this book approaches the theme of hope from the point of view of the philosophical, theological, political, literary, psychological, and sociological and presents hope not just as an abstract theme to be .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hope -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Hope
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McDonald, Janette.
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Stephenson, Andrea M.
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Inter-disciplinary.net Conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries (4th : 2008 : Oxford, England)
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| ISBN |
9789042030237 |
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9042030232 |
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