Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope is about the relationship between two hugely influential ideas in political life: fear and hope. How are cultures of resistance nurtured within an environment of paranoia and social paralysis? Stefan Skrimshire argues that grass-roots responses to a politics of fear coincide with an explosion of interest in the quasi-religious themes of apocalypse, eschatology and utopia in cultural life. Where visions of a better future are replaced by the acceptance of a fearful present - a state of 'war with no end' - this is an important examination of the beliefs that underpin our capacity to hope.Stefan Skrimshire is a postdoctoral research associate in philosophy of religion at The University of Manchester, UK.
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1 Politics of Fantasy
Chapter 2: Post-Democracy and the War on Terror
Chapter 3: From Fear to Desire
Chapter 4: Accidents Waiting to Happen
Part 2 Politics of Imagination
Chapter 5: Utopia: Radical Imagination
Chapter 6: Eschatology: Radical Waiting
Chapter 7: Apocalypse: Radical Seeing
Part 3 Experiments in Hope
Chapter 8: The Performance of Dissent
Chapter 9: How to be Common
Chapter 10: Bodies of Resistance
Chapter 11: Conclusion
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