This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off
despair and the dangers these same narratives create by raising
expectations that are seldom fulfilled. The quasi-messianic
expectations produced by the election of President Barack Obama in
2008, and their diminution, were stark reminders of an ongoing
struggle between ideals and political realities. Redemptive Hope
begins by tracing the tension between theistic thinkers, for whom
hope is transcendental, and intellectuals, who have striven to link
hopes for redemption to our intersubjective interactions with other
human beings. Lerner argues that a vibrant democracy must draw on
the best of both religious thought and secular liberal political
philosophy. By bringing Richard Rorty's pragmatism into
conversation with early-twentieth-century Jewish thinkers,
including Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch, Lerner begins the work of
building bridges, while insisting on holding crucial differences in
dialectical tension. Only such a dialogue, he argues, can prepare
the foundations for modes of redemptive thought fit for the
twenty-first century.
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