Redemptive hope : from the age of enlightenment to the age of Obama /

"This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off despair and the dangers these same narratives create by raising expectations that are seldom fulfilled. The quasi-messianic expectations produced by the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, and their diminution, were st...

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Main Author:	Lerner, Akiba (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Commonalities.
Subjects:	Rorty, Richard > Political and social views. Hope. Hope > Religious aspects. Hope > Religious aspects > Judaism. Reconciliation > Religious aspects. Religion and politics. Religion > Philosophy. Political science > Philosophy. Jewish philosophy. Electronic books.
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