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 stark re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Commonalities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Social Hope and Postmetaphysical Redemption
- Conclusion: Between Pragmatic and Messianic Hopes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Commonalities Timothy C. Campbell, series editor