...This chapter contains the introduction to Hirschman's collection of essays on development at the close of the 1960s, A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development in Latin America. Here, Hirschman points to the importance of the interplay between economic and political forces: not just...

...This chapter further elaborates the incorporation analysis. Hope does indeed involve the basic elements of the orthodox definition—the desire for an outcome and a subjective probability estimate between 0 and 1. In addition, hope, when most fully realized, makes use of our capacities of self...

...What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? This book presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives. The book contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings...

... of pessimism dominates Augustine's reception in contemporary political theory. Meanwhile, many of Augustine's defenders appropriate his pessimism to chasten political hope and emphasize the limits of politics. On the other hand, communitarians summon Augustine to advance an even more radical critique...

...This chapter looks into the contested debates of pagan virtue found in Augustine of Hippo's works. The critique of “pagan virtue” presents a special challenge for the Augustinian account of political hope. The chapter considers an alternative Augustinian account that recognizes non-Christians...

...This concluding chapter reflects on Augustine of Hippo's politics of hope. It argues that Augustine commends hope instead of pessimism and the false hope that assumes politics as the ultimate happiness. Since Augustine encourages citizens to seek common goods in the saeculum...

...' logic of elections. It is also a concept which, by its nature, generates others—such as electoral hostility, democratic frustration, or even the centrality of hope and hopelessness in electoral behaviour. Electoral resolution additionally forces one to redefine yet other notions, such as election cycles...

...This chapter discusses Augustine of Hippo's grammar of hope while considering its correlation to faith and love. In The Enchiridion, Augustine offers his most systematic and influential account of hope, explaining the relations among faith, hope, and love and devoting a section...

... on moral psychology and metaphysics. Augustine identifies hope as necessary for the good life but recognizes that simply possessing hope is insufficient. However, many interpreters worry that Augustine's excessively otherworldly hope denies any legitimate hope for temporal goods, including the goods...

...This chapter looks into the distinctions in Augustine of Hippo's order of love in an effort to reconstruct his implicit order of hope. According to Augustine, hope depends fundamentally on the movement of love. Moreover, Augustine allows a robust hope for temporal goods as long as it is rightly...

...This chapter explores Augustine of Hippo's conceptual framework for understanding the grounds of faith and hope. It references Augustine's account of faith, reason, and authority to reconstruct the grounds of hope and shows how he affirms the legitimacy of hoping in both God and neighbor to achieve...

... exercise of hope that helps readers find a way between presumption and despair. The chapter notes how political theorists, who fixate on Augustine's pessimism, often neglect his structure of encouragement, which reflects the simple binary between optimism and pessimism among Augustinian studies...

...When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square. Many have enlisted him to chasten political hopes, highlighting the realities of evil and encouraging citizens instead...

... possible form of the deliberate subversion of heteronormative metrics of success. Djuna Barnes worked for decades to turn the attempted autobiography of her Dadaist friend, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, into a publishable biography. Hope Mirrlees compiled a series of half-done drafts, notes...

...This introductory chapter explores the meanings of hope and posits two approaches to a philosophical inquiry into hope: the syndrome analysis and the incorporation analysis. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of a syndrome analysis, before turning to a dualist theory of motivation, upon...

...This chapter presents a series of challenge cases for the orthodox definition of hope—cases that show this definition cannot distinguish strong hopes for highly unlikely outcomes from either weaker hopes or even despair directed at those outcomes. To truly capture what it is to “hope against hope...

...This concluding chapter makes several arguments. It stresses that hope deserves rather a different reputation than it has. On the one hand, it does not deserve a reputation as either unqualifiedly good or unqualifiedly reliable. Its relation to rational action and a good life is more complex...

... and clinicians from online discussion forums to Chinese hospital wards in order to understand the hopes, frustrations, and possibilities that experimental therapies offer those living with conditions deemed incurable. In the chapters that follow, the author develops an anthropology of transnational regenerative...

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...This chapter considers how political goods can be proper objects of Augustinian hope. It also cites that common objects of hope offer resources for political deliberation in the face of disagreement. In the City of God, Augustine of Hippo traces the history of two cities...