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The Spirit of Hope

The Spirit of Hope

Han, Byung-Chul
Steuer, Daniel

Hardcover

PhilosophyCognition

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1509565191
ISBN13: 9781509565191
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Nov 26 2024
Pages: 111
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.87 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.

But it is precisely at such moments of fear and despair that hope arises like a phoenix from the ashes. Only hope can give us back a life that is more than mere survival. Fear isolates people and closes them off from one another; hope, by contrast, unites people and forms communities. It opens up a meaningful horizon that re-invigorates and inspires life. It nurtures fantasy and enables us to think about what is yet to come. It makes action possible because it infuses our world with purpose and meaning. Hope is the spring that liberates us from our collective despair and gives us a future.

In this short essay on hope, Byung-Chul Han gives us the perfect antidote to the climate of fear that pervades our world.

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