Living Joyfully after Losing Social Hope: Kierkegaard and Chrétien on Selfhood and Eschatological Expectation

Living Joyfully after Losing Social Hope: Kierkegaard and Chrétien on Selfhood and Eschatological Expectation

In this essay, I offer an existential-phenomenological consideration of what it might look like to live joyfully after losing social hope. Using the example of the widespread hopelessness that many are feeling in light of the election of Donald Trump, I suggest that the danger of losing hope is that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: J. Aaron Simmons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-02-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
hope
eschatology
joy
subjectivity
Søren Kierkegaard
Jean-Louis Chrétien
David Kangas
Claude Romano
phenomenology
philosophy of religion
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/3/33

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