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Hope: A Literary History
Engelsk Hardback
Hope: A Literary History
Engelsk Hardback

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Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational and self-destructive thinking, and as a presumption against the gods. To what extent do arguments against hope today remain useful? If hope sounds to us like a good thing, that reaction stems from a progressive political tradition grounded in the French Revolution, aspects of Romantic literature and the influence of the Abrahamic faiths. Ranging both wide and deep, Adam Potkay examines the cases for and against hope found in literature from antiquity to the present. Drawing imaginatively on several fields and creatively juxtaposing poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology and political theory, the author brings continually fresh insights to a subject of perennial interest. This is a bold and illuminating new treatment of a long-running literary debate as complex as it is compelling.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
434
ISBN-13:
9781316513705
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
131651370X
Udg. Dato:
27 jan 2022
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
145mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
27 jan 2022
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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