Hope in a Democratic Age

Hope in a Democratic Age
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9780199297153
ISBN-13 : 0199297150
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Book Synopsis Hope in a Democratic Age by : Alan Mittleman

Download or read book Hope in a Democratic Age written by Alan Mittleman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new philosophical study of hope as a resource for the tasks of citizenship in a liberal, democratic society. It contends that the modern philosophical construction of hope as an emotion is deficient; it reconstructs the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue in a contemporary philosophical idiom.


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