1851896392     

1st ed.

Boston : BRILL, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (216 pages)

Englisch

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978-90-04-54159-7

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The essays collected here offer original insight into the problem of hope and the philosophy of peace. The essays offer hopeful reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic, recent challenges to democratic norms, climate change, and other emerging threats.

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Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Hoping With: an Editorial Introduction -- 1 The Urgency of Hope -- 2 Hope, Stability, and Individualism -- 3 Collective Hope -- 4 Hoping That vs. Hoping With -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Precis of the Volume -- References -- Part 1 Peace, Hope, and Truth -- Chapter 2 Peace and Hope in Dark Times -- 1 Part One - Dark Times -- 2 Part 2 - Fear and Insecurity -- 3 Part 3 - Addressing Fear and Insecurity through Nonviolence -- 4 Part Four - Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Reconstruction after Trump: Restoring Health, Truth, and Democracy -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Dark -- 1.2 Hope: Coming Back into the Light -- 2 Mind Viruses and Their Spread -- 2.1 Mind Viruses -- 2.2 Spreading Mind Viruses -- 2.3 The Attack on Truth -- 2.4 Examples of Dangerous Mind Virus Transmission -- 3 The Attack on Democracy: the Danger of Mind Viruses -- 4 The Path of Hope: Reconstruction Begins -- 4.1 Restoring Heath: Covid-19 Vaccines -- 4.2 Restoring Truth and Diminishing the Virulence of Mind Viruses -- 4.3 Restoring Democracy -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Hope as a Moral Perspective: a Performative Language for Peace Activism in a Dark Time -- 1 Popular Treatments of Hope: Solnit and Eagleton -- 2 Philosophical Treatments of Hope: Freire and Rorty -- 3 Stephen Fishman on Moral Hope in Dewey -- 4 A Moral Perspective on Hope Based on Language Games and Performative Discourse -- 5 Conclusion: Hope as Beacon and Motor -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Authoritarianism and Resistance -- Chapter 5 Authoritarian Ideology and the Saving Power: Finding Hope in Black Lives Matter and the Youth Climate Movement -- 1 The Danger in Authoritarian Ideology -- 2 The Saving Power: Peace and Hope -- 3 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 The Dilemma of Domestic Fascism.