The Philosophy of Hope

Description

I work on definitional issues regarding hope, the moral psychology of hope, and the role of hope in normative political theory.

 

Publications

  1. Ideological hope (in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy)
  2. Hope (in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  3. The Moral Psychology of Hope: An Introduction (in The Moral Psychology of Hope)
  4. Political Hope and Cooperative Community (in The Moral Psychology of Hope)
  5. Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity (in Philosophical Papers)
  6. Hope (in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

 

Presentations

  1. Structural Injustice, Complicity, and Collective Hope (Basel, 10/2025)
  2. Hope and Complicity (Cologne, 07/2025)
  3. Ideological and Non-Ideological Technologies of Hope (Amsterdam, 03/2025)
  4. Democratic Hope and Political Anger (Groningen, 11/2024)
  5. Anger, Hope, and Protest (Prague, 05/2024)
  6. Hoffnung oder Empörung? (Frankfurt, 06/2023)
  7. Ideological Hope (Berlin, 07/2022)
  8. Ideals without Idealization: Why Critical Theories Need a Reference to an Ideal Society (Lisbon, 05/2022)
  9. Ideological Hope (Tilburg, 12/2021)
  10. Collective Hope (The Hague, 08/2016)
  11. Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity (Estes Park, 06/2016)
  12. Hope beyond Liberalism (Groningen, 06/2016)
  13. Collective Hope and Social Justice (Amsterdam, 2015)