Download or read book Hope in a Democratic Age written by Alan Mittleman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling new philosophical study of hope as a resource for the tasks of citizenship in a liberal, democratic society. It contends that the modern philosophical construction of hope as an emotion is deficient; it reconstructs the medieval understanding of hope as a virtue in a contemporary philosophical idiom.