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...
Main Author: | J. Aaron Simmons |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2017-02-01
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Series: | Religions |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/8/3/33 |
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