BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

    The interdependence of hope and fear

    Susan, James (2021) The interdependence of hope and fear. Contemporary Political Theory 20 , pp. 200-231. ISSN 1470-8914.

    [img]
    Preview
    Text
    James, Hope and Fear submitted.pdf - Author's Accepted Manuscript

    Download (139kB) | Preview

    Abstract

    This is part of a Critical Exchange: 'Spinoza: thoughts on hope in our political present'. It appears with articles by Justin Steinberg, Aurelia Armstrong and Martin Saar, and an introduction by Moira Gatens. My contribution to the exchange takes up Spinoza's claim that hope is always intertwined with fear. Whereas commentators have tended to argue that Spinoza qualifies this position (hope can sometimes be free of fear), I argue that he puts the unavoidable interconnection between the two affects to positive use. To make good use of hope in our own political lives we need to take account of its relationship with fear.

    Metadata

    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Susan James
    Date Deposited: 23 Jun 2020 10:17
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 18:00
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/32335

    Statistics

    Activity Overview
    6 month trend
    61Downloads
    6 month trend
    298Hits

    Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.

    Archive Staff Only (login required)

    Edit/View Item Edit/View Item