The Politics of Hope and the Other-in-the-World: Thinking Exteriority

Transformations: A Personal History of Introducing Complicité into Academic Life and Learning Communities

“…Struggling with exhaustion, chronic pain, and side effects of treatments, the classroom became a place of giving all that I had, and thus a place of rising above the challenges of decreased mobility, my body changing in ways I could not recognize as a result of targeted medications, and my memory becoming the sharpest when I wanted to be there and grasp every breath to give something back to life. Academic discussions on pedagogies of hope became something I internalized in my own life (see Lindroth and Sinevaara-Niskanen 2019;Hooks 2014;Nayar 2013;McLaren 2001). I wanted the coming together in a classroom to really matter to us all.…”

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

“…So, onward with my day!" 15 Michelle Obama might be right to say that, in relation to disappointed social and political expectations, what she is feeling is "what it feels like to lose hope," but that exclamation point at the end of Kangas's sentence is what the joy that comes from eschatological hope looks like.…”

“…5 As a particularly good phenomenological consideration, see [9,10]. Additionally, see [11] for a Sartrean account of hope, [12] for a Kantian phenomenology of hope, [13] as a model of how to consider hope in the context of Bloch's phenomenology of death, [14] as an example of why hope can be contrasted with a phenomenology despair, and [15] for a politics of hope in light of Levinas. conception of determinate religion (what Jean-Luc Marion might term the counter-intentionality of a horizon-less religious phenomenality), 6 I will not address that question here, but instead work from a conditional acceptance of both as part of embodied existence that is at least possibly the case for a great number of existing individuals. What Michelle Obama rightly realizes is that when one loses hope what gets lost is not simply one's idea of what the future was going to be like, but instead one's idea of oneself in relation to what matters.…”