Hope in a Democratic Age. By Alan Mittleman
Hope is one of those things we do almost unthinkingly, or perhaps instinctively. Possibly what we don’t do is think too much about what hope is and what it is we are doing when we hope for something. In this thoughtful study, Alan Mittleman, Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological S...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 910-913 |
| Review of: | Hope in a democratic age (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009) (Cowan, David)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Hope is one of those things we do almost unthinkingly, or perhaps instinctively. Possibly what we don’t do is think too much about what hope is and what it is we are doing when we hope for something. In this thoughtful study, Alan Mittleman, Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, invites us to do just this: to reflect on hope personally, philosophically, religiously, and politically. By the end of this study, the reader will feel much the better for having done so. The problem is that ‘hope’ is one of those words regularly used with so little thought it almost loses meaning, like ‘nice’ or ‘good’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq095 |
