
ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0199297150
- ISBN 13: 9780199297153
Overview
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.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Pages: 312
- Date Published: 2009-08-31
- Authors: Alan Mittleman