A Commonwealth of Hope (eBook)

Augustine's Political Thought

Michael Lamb (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
448 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22635-4 (ISBN)

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A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square. Many have enlisted him to chasten political hopes, highlighting the realities of evil and encouraging citizens instead to cast their hopes on heaven. A Commonwealth of Hope challenges prevailing interpretations of Augustinian pessimism, offering a new vision of his political thought that can also help today's citizens sustain hope in the face of despair.Amid rising inequality, injustice, and political division, many citizens wonder what to hope for in politics and whether it is possible to forge common hopes in a deeply polarized society. Michael Lamb takes up this challenge, offering the first in-depth analysis of Augustine's virtue of hope and its profound implications for political life. He draws on a wide range of Augustine's writingsincluding neglected sermons, letters, and treatisesand integrates insights from political theory, religious studies, theology, and philosophy. Lamb shows how diverse citizens, both religious and secular, can unite around common hopes for the commonwealth.Recovering this understudied virtue and situating Augustine within his political, rhetorical, and religious contexts, A Commonwealth of Hope reveals how Augustine's virtue of hope can help us resist the politics of presumption and despair and confront the challenges of our time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: activism • Adulis • affection • Analogy • Augustine of Hippo • Belief • Centrality • Certainty • Citizenship • civic virtue • Coercion • Communitarianism • Community of Interest • Cradle of civilization • Determination • Divine Grace • Doctrine • Effectiveness • Elmhurst College • Eloquence • Epistemology • escapism • Eschatology • Excellence • existence of god • Explanation • Faith • Feeling • fideism • Figure of Speech • gentile • God • Good and evil • Gospel • Gratitude • Hannah Arendt • homily • humility • idealism • Image of God • immanent critique • inference • Institution • Islam • Jesus • kindness • Late Antiquity • Legitimation • Lightness • Lightness (philosophy) • Love • Loyalty • luck • Millenarianism • Monotheism • narrative • Natural Symbols • New Religious Movement • Occult • Ontology • optimism • Persuasion • pessimism • Philosophy • piety • pistis • Politics • Practical reason • Prediction • pride • procession • reason • Religio • Religion • religious text • Righteousness • Saeculum • Saint • Sake • Salvation • sasanian empire • Secularism • Secularity • sensibility • seriousness • Sermon • sors • Suggestion • Theological virtues • Theology • theory • Thought • Time • treatise • Utopia • virtue • vocabulary • well-being • Worship • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22635-0 / 0691226350
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22635-4 / 9780691226354