Hope without optimism /

Hope without optimism /

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Author / Creator:Eagleton, Terry, 1943- author.
Imprint:Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2015]
Description:1 online resource (xii, 160 pages)
Language:English
Series:Page-Barbour lectures for 2014
Page-Barbour lectures ; 2014.
Subject:
Hope.
Optimism.
Hope.
Optimism.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12592253
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ISBN:9780813937359
0813937353
9780813937342
0813937345
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Eagleton "considers the least regarded of the virtues. His ... 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 rationalization than a reliable lens on reality, reflecting the cast of one's temperament in place of true discernment. Eagleton turns then to hope, probing the meaning of this familiar but elusive word: Is it an emotion? How does it differ from desire? Does it fetishize the future?"--Dust jacket flap
Other form:Print version: Eagleton, Terry, 1943- Hope without optimism. Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2015] 9780813937342

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