The resilience of hope / / edited by Janette McDonald and Andrea M. Stephenson.
Hope: What is it? How do we get it? Is it part of being human? Is it something that carries us through hard times? Is it something illusory? This book, which stems from the 4th Inter-Disciplinary.net conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries held in September 2008 at Mansfield College in Oxford, En...
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| Superior document: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 68 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi. ©2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- On the Rationality of Hope, Given Naturalism / Michael W. Swanson
- Hope as a Moral Virtue / Nancy Billias
- Exercise of Hope / Wendy O’Brien
- Where Music Plays and the Sirens Sing: Hope and Despair in George Steiner’s Tragic Vision / Ricardo Gil Soeiro
- The Tension between Ideological Closure and Hermeneutic Openness in Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Hope / Salomon J. Terreblanche
- Construction of Human Identity: A Vehicle for Hope / Andrea M. Stephenson
- Hoping to Fear: The Cathartic Transformation of the Civic Community / Stephanie-Alice Baker
- The Principle of Hope: Relating to the European Union in Rural Romania / Katy Fox
- Hope in Pandora’s Box: Psychological Work with Medical Patients / Sara Haramati
- Fear and Hope: The Relationships between Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Positive Psychological Impact Following Exposure to Politically Motivated Violence / Shimon Shiri , Isaiah D. Wexler , Pamela R. Simonsson and Shulamit Kreitler
- Hope or Horror? A Follow-up Study of Resilience in Survivors from the 1985 Famine in Ethiopia / Ellen Alexandra Lothe
- Notes on Contributors.