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Hope: A Phenomenology Of Availability

Hope: A Phenomenology Of Availability

Bastiani, Wilfred-Leonard

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 1326631381
ISBN13: 9781326631383
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Jan 4 2026
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.14 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Hope is commonly praised as optimism, reassurance, or belief in a better future. This book takes a different path. In Hope - A Phenomenology of Availability, Wilfred-Leonard examines hope not as expectation, but as a present orientation: the capacity to remain open without projection, promise, or guarantee. Drawing on philosophy, phenomenology, psychology, and contemplative inquiry, the book traces how hope has been misunderstood, moralized, and instrumentalized-and how it can be reclaimed as a disciplined stance toward time and uncertainty. From Greek sobriety to modern critique, from existential rigor to lived reflection, hope is progressively stripped of illusion. What remains is neither optimism nor despair, but availability: a quiet, exact trust in openness itself. This is not a book about believing in the future, but about standing fully in the present without closing it.

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