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Jan 20, 2016 · What would it mean to wish that 2016 will be any better than 2015? As we enter the New Year the latest book by the prolific Terry Eagleton, Hope Without Optimism, offers a brief but wide-ranging meditation on the meaning of a seemingly simple concept that escapes easy definition. Eagleton preface sounds a cautionary note: As one for whom the ...
As Eagleton notes, the latter is a radical Protestant perspective that finds a political correlate in Alain Badiou’s philosophy of the event. Hope Without Optimism begins with the suggestion that hope is “a curiously neglected notion in an age which, in Raymond Williams’s words, confronts us with ‘the felt loss of the future ...
Jan 28, 2016 · In his new book, Terry Eagleton cites Wittgenstein’s remark and—although he believes Wittgenstein’s view stemmed from a dislike of dogs—he agrees that hope is a function of language. Hope without Optimism, based on the Page-Barbour Lectures that Eagleton delivered at the University of Virginia in 2014, is a witty and insightful tour of ...
Jun 11, 2019 · In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress, bringing into focus a standpoint that requires reflection and ...
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Oct 14, 2015 · To borrow a distinction from Terry Eagleton’s new book, you might say that Hobsbawm was urging Labour to offer hope rather than take refuge in optimism. The optimist, Eagleton argues, is congenitally disposed to believe that things can only get better. “Authentic hope, by contrast, needs to be underpinned by reasons.”
Jun 11, 2019 · Hope Without Optimism. In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism, cheeriness, desire, idealism or adherence to the doctrine of Progress ...
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Aug 28, 2015 · Terry Eagleton. 3.61. 332 ratings46 reviews. In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life’s course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of ...
