Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future
Identification
- Public canonical key
- radar:r-5012affc997efc41bce06d3fe600c043
- Authors
- Jakob Huber
- Reported year
- 2026
- Reported language
- en
- Source type
- book
- First detected
- 2026-11-14T02:19:27.594338+00:00
- Last metadata observation
- 2026-11-14T02:19:27.594338+00:00
- Last HTTP verification
- Not checked
Institutions reported by the source
Freie Universität Berlin
Reported affiliation countries
DE
Documentary abstract — original language
Abstract This book develops a systematic political philosophy of hope for an age of democratic crisis. It argues that hope is not merely a psychological attitude but a political necessity: democracy requires that citizens understand themselves as co-authors of their shared future, and this self-understanding depends on the capacity for imaginative hope. The book identifies two crises: hope is increasingly unavailable to citizens who lack positive visions of the future, and hope faces theoretical suspicion from scholars and activists who warn that it breeds complacency or distorts our grasp of reality. In response, it develops an account of imaginative hope as politically indispensable, showing how it enables political agents to overcome demoralization, constitute effective collectives, and achieve orientation about their goals. Having established why hope matters, the book argues that we should respond to hope's dangers by democratizing it, that is, subjecting our hopes to ongoing democratic contestation. This account of democratic hope culminates in a conception of ‘diachronic democracy’: a conception of democracy as an inherently temporal practice through which citizens collectively negotiate their shared future, providing both a response to the crises of hope and a new account of what democracy fundamentally is.
Identifiers
- OPENALEX
- https://openalex.org/W7213033487
- DOI
- 10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001
Documentary context
- Documentary family
- Book
- Source-reported types
- book
Entity mentions are not evidence of legal recognition. Jurisdiction studied is separate from author affiliation country.
Book bibliographic description
- Reported publication date
- 2026-09-14
Access status unknown
Sources
OpenAlex · Record 1
Cite this reference
Jakob Huber. Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001
JSON · CSL-JSON · BibTeX · RIS · CSV · JSON-LD ·
APA, Chicago, ISO 690: bibliographic formats using available fields. OSCOLA / Bluebook: structured data only; full legal citation compliance is not claimed without verification of required elements.
- APA
- Jakob Huber. (2026). Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001
- Chicago
- Jakob Huber. Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001
- ISO 690
- Jakob Huber. Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001
Warning: Undefined array key "last_link_verified" in /home/clients/e27d81e12f04d2bfd747aa264540ac56/sites/_UDTR_APP/legal_library_reference.php on line 31
UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-5012affc997efc41bce06d3fe600c043/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed
Research dossiers and documentary relations
Source roles
Bibliographic / original publication source · https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001
An authority link alone does not verify a legal claim. Abstracts and full texts remain subject to their source terms.
Documentary status
Relevance pending
Library
This identity is not yet included in the Legal Library.