Description: Further DetailsTitle: Redemptive HopeCondition: NewSubtitle: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of ObamaISBN-10: 0823267911EAN: 9780823267910ISBN: 9780823267910Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/01/2015Description: 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 reminders of an ongoing struggle between ideals and political realities.Redemptive Hope begins by tracing the tension between theistic thinkers, for whom hope is transcendental, and intellectuals, who have striven to link hopes for redemption to our intersubjective interactions with other human beings.Lerner argues that a vibrant democracy must draw on the best of both religious thought and secular liberal political philosophy. By bringing Richard Rorty’s pragmatism into conversation with early-twentieth-century Jewish thinkers, including Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch, Lerner begins the work of building bridges, while insisting on holding crucial differences in dialectical tension. Only such a dialogue, he argues, can prepare the foundations for modes of redemptive thought fit for the twenty-first century.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Akiba J. LernerGenre: HistoryBook Series: CommonalitiesTopic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Redemptive Hope
Title: Redemptive Hope
Subtitle: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama
ISBN-10: 0823267911
EAN: 9780823267910
ISBN: 9780823267910
Release Date: 09/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Commonalities
Book Title: Redemptive Hope : from the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Topic: Atheism, Personal Growth / General, Judaism / History, Individual Philosophers, History & Theory, Political, Interpersonal Relations, Religion, Politics & State, Philosophy
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Religion, Political Science, Philosophy, Self-Help, Psychology
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Akiba J. Lerner
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Commonalities Ser.
Item Width: 6.9 in
Format: Hardcover
