The Habits of Hope: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

Author/Contributor(s):	Shade, Patrick
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Date:	01/26/2001
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In this original contribution to the American philosophical tradition, Patrick Shade makes a strong argument for the necessity of hope in a cynical world that too often rejects it as foolish. While most accounts of hope situate it in a theological context, Shade presents a theory rooted in the pragmatic thought of such American philosophers as C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey.