Living Joyfully after Losing Social Hope
Kierkegaard and Chrétien on Selfhood and Eschatological Expectation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3244992 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Aaron Simmons (0000-0002-6071-2881, Furman University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 33 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel8030033 |
| OpenAlex | W2590350457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 30 |
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 we can also lose our selfhood in the process. In order to develop a conception of "eschatological hope" that would be resistant to the loss of such social and political expectations, I draw specifically on Søren Kierkegaard's notion that "the expectancy of faith is victory," and Jean-Louis Chrétien's idea of "the unhoped for," in order to develop a model of hope that remains when it seems like all other hope has been lost. Rather than being overcome by anxiety about the future, eschatological hope fosters joy in the present
Bad faith · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Expectancy theory · Faith · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Victory · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |