UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Democratic Hope: Imagination and the Political Future

Identification

Clé publique

radar:r-5012affc997efc41bce06d3fe600c043

Auteurs

Jakob Huber

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

book

Première détection

2026-11-14T02:19:27.594338+00:00

Dernière observation des métadonnées

2026-11-14T02:19:27.594338+00:00

Dernière vérification HTTP

Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

Freie Universität Berlin

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

DE

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

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.

Identifiants

OPENALEX

https://openalex.org/W7213033487

DOI

10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001

Repères documentaires

Famille documentaire

Livre

Types déclarés par les sources

book

Les mentions d’entités ne constituent pas une preuve de reconnaissance juridique. La juridiction étudiée est distincte du pays d’affiliation des auteurs.

Description bibliographique du livre

Date de publication déclarée

2026-09-14

Disponibilité non établie

Sources

OpenAlex · Document 1

• Document · https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198977797.001.0001

Statut documentaire

Pertinence à examiner

Bibliothèque

Cette identité n’est pas encore intégrée à la Bibliothèque juridique.