Beyond Hope: Philosophical Reflections

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Drawing on a host of philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Gabriel Marcel, Josef Pieper, Paul Ricoeur, Viktor Frankl, Eric Voegelin, Bernard Lonergan, Roger Scruton, John Caputo, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as theologians like Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Hans Küng, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, this book argues passionately for the place of hope as the 'beyond' of both a will-o'-the-wisp, facile optimism, on the one hand, and a world-weary, fatuous pessimism, on the othe…

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Full title :Beyond Hope : Philosophical Reflections.

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Drawing on a host of philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Gabriel Marcel, Josef Pieper, Paul Ricoeur, Viktor Frankl, Eric Voegelin, Bernard Lonergan, Roger Scruton, John Caputo, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as theologians like Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Hans Küng, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, this book argues passionately for the place of hope as the 'beyond' of both a will-o'-the-wisp, facile optimism, on the one hand, and a world-weary, fatuous pessimism, on the other. Drawing on the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta in the concluding chapter, it suggests that only by l.

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Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Place of Publication:Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

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Description:1 online resource (154 p.)

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ISBN:9781527560611, 1527560619
oclc:on1204136751
Dewey Decimal:128

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraphs -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Bibliography