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Subject(s)

• Political sociology [Browse]
• Idealism [Browse]

Series

• Oxford Academic [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online

Summary note

This book provides an action-theoretic view of political hope that draws on German idealism, critical theory, and American pragmatism. It offers an alternative to standard perspectives that reduce hope to either a subjective element of individual psychology or to the passive anticipation of the supposedly objective tendencies of the world itself. Featuring chapters on Immanuel Kant, Ernst Bloch, Charles Peirce, and William James, it presents hope instead as a practice of political action that both buttresses and promotes democratic experimentation. By reconstructing hope as a necessary condition for social and political engagement, it furthermore argues for the centrality of utopian thinking for practical action.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contents: Acknowledgments - Introduction - 1. Kant, Practical Belief, and the Regulative Idea of Progress - 2. Bloch and Latent Utopia - 3. The Logic and Vitality of Ends in Peirce and James - 4. Dewey and Democratic Experimentation - Conclusion: Hope and the Production of a Transformable World - Notes - Works Cited - Index

ISBN

• 0-19-767584-0
• 0-19-767585-9
• 0-19-767583-2

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