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Hope Without Optimism (Paperback)
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Hope Without Optimism (Paperback)
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In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour,
Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been
(often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient
Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism,
cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of
Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires reflection
and commitment, arises from clear-sighted rationality, can be
cultivated by practice and self-discipline, and which acknowledges
but refuses to capitulate to the realities of failure and defeat.
Authentic hope is indubitably tragic, yet Eagleton also argues for
its radical implications as 'a species of permanent revolution,
whose enemy is as much political complacency as metaphysical
despair'. It is a means of facing the future without devaluing the
moment or obviating the past. Traversing centuries of thought about
the many modes of hoping - from Ernst Bloch's monumental work
through the Stoics, Aquinas, Marx and Kierkegaard, among others -
this penetrating book throws new light on religious faith and
political ideology as well as issues such as the problem of evil,
the role of language and the meaning of the past. Hope Without
Optimism is a brilliantly engaged, impassioned chronicle of human
belief and desire in an increasingly uncertain world.
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