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The Principle of Political Hope - Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought (Hardcover)
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The Principle of Political Hope - Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought (Hardcover)
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A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the
faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in
recent political theory. Despite the regular appeal to hope from
politicians, there is a widespread feeling of despair in the modern
world: democracy is in retreat, it seems, and authoritarianism
threatens both domestically and internationally. As a precondition
for political action, the decline of political hope has special
urgency in the context of democracy, an idea based on the
egalitarian faith in the capacities of ordinary people to
collectively manage their common affairs. What, if anything, can
offer a foundation for hope in a democratic age? In The Principle
of Political Hope, Loren Goldman draws on Immanuel Kant, Ernst
Bloch, Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey to offer an
account of political hope as a frame for navigating the
relationship between subjective aspiration and objective
possibility. Considering what political hope is, how it operates,
how it has been thought about, and how to think about it in the
contemporary world, Goldman's conceptualization of hope rejects
grand notions of progress while still maintaining the possibility
of a brighter future. This hope, as opposed to optimism, is
characterized by uncertainty, haunted by the possibility of
failure, and works to overcome despair. It is rooted in political
action and democratic experimentation. Through an insightful
reading of each thinker, Goldman shows that the anticipatory aspect
of political thought allows us to make sense of political acts as
prefigurative instead of merely expressive. Participation in
voting, electoral politics, protest, aesthetic happenings, and even
everyday minor acts of illegality are not merely activities serving
instrumental ends-in-view but fleeting enactments of and
preparation for a better future. Refreshing and lucid, Goldman
reconstructs hope as a necessary condition for social and political
engagement, reinvigorating the possibility of utopia in the
process.
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