Stefan Skrimshire

Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope is about the relationship between two hugely influential ideas in political life: fear and hope. How are cultures of resistance nurtured within an environment of paranoia and social paralysis? Stefan Skrimshire argues that grass-roots responses to a politics of fear coincide with an explosion of interest in the quasi-religious themes of apocalypse, eschatology and utopia in cultural life. Where visions of a better future are replaced by the acceptance of a fearful present - a state of 'war with no end' - this is an important examination of the beliefs that underpin our capacity to hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441187888
• Artikelnr.: 38301824

Autorenporträt

Stefan Skrimshire is a postdoctoral research associate in philosophy of religion at The University of Manchester, UK.