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This book brings together secular liberal democratic thought—as found within the work of late neo-pragmatic philosopher Richard Rorty—with religious liberal thinkers—such as Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch—for the purpose of exploring the contested intellectual history of redemptive hope narratives.
Akiba Lerner is an associate professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Santa Clara University.
—Paul Mendes-Flohr:With nuanced erudition Akiba J. Lerner brings the neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty and the Jewish existentialist Martin Buber into a dialogue to explore narrative strategies to sustain social hope in an age duly skeptical of the utopian promises of political ideologies and wary of messianic enthusiasm.
Akiba Lerner’s thoughtful and well-supported study of how redemption narratives have functioned in Western thought since Kant is a rich and provocative analysis of the relationship between religious images and human practice.
—Nathanial Deutsch:Many scholars within the field of affect studies will appreciate Akiba Lerner's illuminating treatment of Ernst Bloch, who has emerged as a key intellectual progenitor of the field. Jewish studies scholars, in turn, will gain a new appreciation for a figure whose connection to contemporary Jewish thought has often been overlooked.
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