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Hope - The Politics of Optimism (Paperback)
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A colourful map of the current conflict between pessimism and
optimism in Western politics and theory, Hope attempts to reveal
both the deep history and contemporary necessity of political
hopefulness. Starting in the 17th century with Spinoza, Wortham
tells the story of the various fallacies and insights of pessimism
and optimism through the 18th century with the help of Kant and
Voltaire through to the famously nihilistic writings of Nietzsche
and the 20th century works of thinkers such as Benjamin, Arendt,
Kristeva and Fanon (to name but a few). He explores the
contemporary significance of ideas such as affirmation,
sovereignty, violence, therapy, existentialism and, of course, the
oft maligned notion of 'hopefulness' to create a politics of
optimism which avoids the pitfalls of uncritical acceptance of the
status quo or the newest political idea. Short chapters written in
an engaging narrative manner enable the reader to follow the story
of political optimism over the last 4 centuries inspiring a new way
of thinking about the transformative uses of hopefulness.
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