Redemptive hope : : from the age of enlightenment to the age of Obama / / Akiba J. Lerner.
"This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off despair and the dangers these same narratives create by raising expectations that are seldom fulfilled. The quasi-messianic expectations produced by the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, and their diminution, were st...
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| Superior document: | Commonalities |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Fordham University Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Commonalities.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- 1. Redemptive Hope and the Cunning of History
- 2. Revival of Messianic Hope
- 3. The God of Exodus and The School of Hope
- 4. Richard Rorty's Post-Metaphysical Social Hope
- Conclusion: Between Pragmatic and Messianic Hopes
- Notes
- Index.