The Oxford Compendium of Hope

The Oxford Compendium of Hope presents an authoritative and comprehensive guide to hope with five main aims: provide a historical context for the interdisciplinary study of hope, condense and organize seminal writings on hope, document the state of research on hope across 12 scholarly areas, prioritize scholarship with generative power and cross-disciplinary potential, and anchor itself in a unifying, philosophical meta-perspective on hope. Central to the volume''s purpose is the editor''s "third culture" approach to the study of hope, encompassing both a scientific and a humanities-based examination. Chapter authors hailing from psychology, philosophy, health studies, anthropology, and other disciplines examine hope from their unique vantage points.