Moral Psychology of Hope

Claudia Blöser is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main areas of research are practical philosophy, especially Kant’s practical philosophy and moral psychology. Her publications include Zurechnung bei Kant (2014, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter), articles in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Kantian Review, Philosophia, Ratio. Together with Titus Stahl, she has authored the Stanford Encylopedia article on hope (2017) and “Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity” (Philosophical Papers, 2017).Titus Stahl is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He works on social and political philosophy, critical social theory, privacy theory and the history of political thought. He has published in Constellations, Critical Horizons, Social Theory and Practice, and Ethics and Information Technology. His book “Immanent Critique” will appear with Rowman and Littlefield in 2020. Together with Claudia Blöser, he has authored the Stanford Encylopedia article on hope (2017) and “Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity” (Philosophical Papers, 2017).

• 1. Claudia Blöser & Titus Stahl: The Moral Psychology of Hope. An IntroductionPart I: Hope in the History of Philosophy2. Douglas Cairns: Hope in archaic and classical Greek 3. Anne Jeffrey: Hope in Christianity4. Claudia Blöser: Hope in Kant 5. Roe Fremstedal: Kierkegaard on Hope as Essential to Selfhood6. Sarah Stitzlein: Pragmatist Hope Part II: The Nature of Hope7. Katie Stockdale: Emotional hope 8. Matthew Benton: Epistemological aspects of hope9. Samantha Vice: Pessimism and the Possibility of Hope10. Nancy E. Snow: Is Hope a Moral Virtue?11. Matthew W. Gallagher, Johann M. D’Souza & Angela L. Richardson: Hope in Contemporary Psychology12. Rika Dunlap: A Zen Buddhist Conception of Hope in EnlightenmentPart III: Social Contexts of Hope13. Adrienne M. Martin: Interpersonal Aspects of Hope14. Darrel Moellendorf: Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene15. Titus Stahl: Political Hope and Cooperative Community

The Moral Psychology of Hope touches on many novel themes in the contemporary scholarship on hope. It is a must-read for anyone interested in historical and religious dimensions of hope, in the philosophical analysis of what it means to hope, including its connection to the emotions, and in the role of hope within social movements.