1. Claudia Blöser & Titus Stahl: The Moral Psychology of Hope. An Introduction
Part I: Hope in the History of Philosophy
2. Douglas Cairns: Hope in archaic and classical Greek
3. Anne Jeffrey: Hope in Christianity
4. Claudia Blöser: Hope in Kant
5. Roe Fremstedal: Kierkegaard on Hope as Essential to Selfhood
6. Sarah Stitzlein: Pragmatist Hope
Part II: The Nature of Hope
7. Katie Stockdale: Emotional hope
8. Matthew Benton: Epistemological aspects of hope
9. Samantha Vice: Pessimism and the Possibility of Hope
10. Nancy E. Snow: Is Hope a Moral Virtue?
11. Matthew W. Gallagher, Johann M. D'Souza & Angela L. Richardson: Hope in Contemporary Psychology
12. Rika Dunlap: A Zen Buddhist Conception of Hope in Enlightenment
Part III: Social Contexts of Hope
13. Adrienne M. Martin: Interpersonal Aspects of Hope
14. Darrel Moellendorf: Hope for Material Progress in the Age of the Anthropocene
15. Titus Stahl: Political Hope and Cooperative Community

The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.

Edited by Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl