Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 176 pages)
Ausgabe:
1 edition
Ausgabe:
London Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN:
9781350105324
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9781350105317
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9781350105287
Inhalt:
"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."--Bloomsbury publishing
Inhalt:
Acknowledgements -- Hope against hope -- Twenty-two short essays on the politics of optimism -- Immanuel Kant, Choosing what is best Voltaire, Bien (tout est) Arthur Schopenhauer, Eating the other Benedict de Spinoza, Hope, faith and judgement Friedrich Nietzsche, Imperfect nihilism -- Maurice Blanchot, Hope and poetry Jacques Derrida, Yes, yes Emmanuel Levinas, Sociality and solitude Sigmund Freud, 'A time-consuming business' Melanie Klein, 'Therapeutic pessimism' in Kristeva's view Julia Kristeva, 'Psychoanalysis-a Counterdepressant' Walter Benjamin, 'Pessimism all along the line' Theodor Adorno, 'Hurrah-optimism' Hannah Arendt, 'The right to expect miracles' Slavoj Žižek, Hopeless courage (with Hegel and Badiou) Franz Kafka, 'Plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope-but not for us' (re-reading Walter Benjamin) Jacques Derrida, Hegel, Bataille, negativity and affirmation Frantz Fanon, Recognition and conflict Hannah Arendt, Violence and power Étienne Balibar, Politics and psychoanalysis Hans Kelsen, Politics and the 'impolitical' Sigmund Freud, Super-ego politics -- index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350105294
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350105300
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wortham, Simon Hope New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN 9781350105300
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350105324
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