Hope, the secret weapon of philosopher Byung-Chul Han
It can be hard to stave off despair these days. We’re inundated with bad news about everything from COVID-19 to the mounting threats against democracy to, of course, climate change. The headlines on that front have been particularly awful.
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hope, the belief that present circumstances can be overturned, that they need not—that they must not—have the final word.
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hope. Not the optimistic kind of hope; more like Joanna’s “life is a beautiful gift so let’s honor it by doing all we can” kind of hope.