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  title info:
    title: Hope in a Democratic age
    sub title: philosophy, religion, and political theory
  name:
    name part: Mittleman, Alan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages)
  abstract: How and why should hope play a key role in a twenty-first century democratic politics? Alan Mittleman offers a philosophical exploration of the theme, contending that a modern construction of hope as an emotion is deficient. He revives the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue, reconstructing this in a contemporary philosophical idiom. In this framework, hope is less a spontaneous reaction than it is a choice against despair; a decision to live with confidence and expectation, based on a rational assessment of possibility and a faith in the underlying goodness of life. In cultures shaped b.
  table of contents: The character of hope -- The virtue of hope: Aquinas: hope as a passion; Aquinas: hope as a virtue; Albo on hope; after Aquinas and Albo -- The negation of hope: ancients; moderns; Spinoza; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche -- The faith of hope: hope in the Hebrew scriptures; hope in early Judaism; hope in early Christianity; post-New Testament development -- Philosophies of hope: Condorcet; Kant; Blocjh; Arendt -- Theologies of hope: Herman Cohen: messianism as politics; Franz Rosenzweig: Judaism as an anti-politics; Martin Buber: politics on the narrow ridge; Walter Rauschenbusch: the social gospel of hope; Stanley Hauerwas: the church as the place of hope; Jürgen Moltmann: a political theology of hope; Catholicism on hope and politics: the church in the modern world.
  note: Alan Mittleman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-281) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Hope
  subject:
    topic: Hope
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Espérance
  subject:
    topic: Espérance
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Movements
    topic: Humanism
  subject:
    topic: Hope
  subject:
    topic: Hope
    topic: Religious aspects
  classification: BD216 .M58 2009eb
  classification: 128
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    title info:
      title: Hope in a Democratic age
    name:
      name part: Mittleman, Alan.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
    identifier: (DLC) 2008942639
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    record creation date: 081128
    record change date: 20260318180233.5
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng