{"product_id":"hope-the-politics-of-optimism-9781350105300","title":"Hope: The Politics of Optimism","description":"A colourful map of the current conflict between pessimism and optimism in Western politics and theory, \u003ci\u003eHope\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to reveal both the deep history and contemporary necessity of political hopefulness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting in the 17th century with Spinoza, Wortham tells the story of the various fallacies and insights of pessimism and optimism through the 18th century with the help of Kant and Voltaire through to the famously nihilistic writings of Nietzsche and the 20th century works of thinkers such as Benjamin, Arendt, Kristeva and Fanon (to name but a few). He explores the contemporary significance of ideas such as affirmation, sovereignty, violence, therapy, existentialism and, of course, the oft maligned notion of 'hopefulness' to create a politics of optimism which avoids the pitfalls of uncritical acceptance of the status quo or the newest political idea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShort chapters written in an engaging narrative manner enable the reader to follow the story of political optimism over the last 4 centuries inspiring a new way of thinking about the transformative uses of hopefulness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-12348052\"\u003eSimon Wortham\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350105300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350105309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI019000\"\u003ePolitical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PSY\"\u003ePsychology\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PSY026000\"\u003eMovements | Psychoanalysis\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI040000\"\u003eMovements | Critical Theory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Wortham\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Critical Humanities, Kingston University London, UK. He is author of \u003ci\u003eResistance and Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003e(2017)\u003ci\u003e, Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eModern Thought in Pain: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2013), \u003ci\u003eThe Derrida Dictionary \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2010), \u003ci\u003eDerrida: Writing Events\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2008), \u003ci\u003eExperimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), \u003ci\u003eCounter-Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eRethinking the University\u003c\/i\u003e (2009)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44692302594285,"sku":"9781350105300","price":59.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_7acedc97-5ace-4f5f-8aa5-d9434f710108.jpg?v=1703738228","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/hope-the-politics-of-optimism-9781350105300","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}