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Redemptive Hope : From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama / Akiba J. Lerner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: CommonalitiesPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823267910
  • 9780823267941
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)