{"product_id":"9781509565191","title":"The Spirit of Hope - Byung-Chul Han","description":"\u003cp\u003eA spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future.ï¿½ Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.ï¿½   But it is precisely at such moments of fear and despair that hope arises like a phoenix from the ashes.ï¿½ Only hope can give us back a life that is more than mere survival. Fear isolates people and closes them off from one another; hope, by contrast, unites people and forms communities.ï¿½ It opens up a meaningful horizon that re-invigorates and inspires life.ï¿½ It nurtures fantasy and enables us to think about what is yet to come.ï¿½ It makes action possible because it infuses our world with purpose and meaning.ï¿½ Hope is the spring that liberates us from our collective despair and gives us a future.     In this short essay on hope, Byung-Chul Han gives us the perfect antidote to the climate of fear that pervades our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Byung-Chul Han","offers":[{"title":"111 pages \/ 27\/09\/2024 \/ Social \u0026 political philosophy","offer_id":56973242171767,"sku":"9781509565191","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781509565191.jpg?v=1775216672","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781509565191","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}