Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope

✍ Scribed by Steven C. van den Heuvel

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel perspectives on often-overlooked historical theories and developments and challenges established views. The second part of the volume documents the state of the art of current research in hope across eight disciplines, which are philosophy, theology, psychology, economy, sociology, health studies, ecology, and development studies. Taken together, this volume provides an integrated view on hope as a multi-faced phenomenon. It contributes to the further understanding of hope as an essential human capacity, with the possibility of transforming our human societies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy (G. Scott Gravlee)....Pages 3-23
Early Christian Thinking on Hope (Martin I. Webber, Jacobus (Kobus) Kok)....Pages 25-45
Hope as a Virtue in the Middle Ages (Andrew Pinsent)....Pages 47-60
Enlightenment Views of Hope (Claudia Blöser)....Pages 61-76
Post-Kantian to Postmodern Considerations of (Theological) Hope (Ronald T. Michener)....Pages 77-95
Front Matter ....Pages 97-97
Philosophy of Hope (Michael Milona)....Pages 99-116
Hope in Theology (David Elliot)....Pages 117-136
The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account (Anthony Scioli)....Pages 137-163
Hope in Economics (Emma Pleeging, Martijn Burger)....Pages 165-178
Hope During Conflict (Oded Adomi Leshem, Eran Halperin)....Pages 179-196
Hope in Health Care: A Synthesis of Review Studies (Erik Olsman)....Pages 197-214
Ecological Hope (Michael S. Northcott)....Pages 215-238
An Ontology of Human Flourishing: Economic Development and Epistemologies of Faith, Hope, and Love (Jan van Vliet)....Pages 239-261
Correction to: Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope (Steven C. van den Heuvel)....Pages C1-C1

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Positive Psychology; Moral Philosophy; Sociology of Religion; Christian Theology; Heterodox Economics