dc.contributor.author
Greco, Silvana
dc.date.accessioned
2023-04-11T13:19:35Z
dc.date.available
2023-04-11T13:19:35Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/37412
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-37125
dc.description.abstract
Not all hope is equal. For the Christian religion, hope is a theological virtue, and refers to the expectation of future life, beyond death. With the transformation of European society in a secular sense and the rise of individualism between the 17th and 18th centuries, hope becomes a program of political and social transformation, aimed at this world. In my contribution I trace the emergence of the concept of hope in social thought and, then, in sociology. My analysis begins with the Philosophie sociale (Paris, 1793) by Moses Dobruska (1753–1794), a pioneering and largely overlooked text that founds a new vision of social science. After Dobruska, I then devote my attention to the great thinkers of the early nineteenth century, Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825) and Auguste Comte (1798–1857), and then I move on to the work of Émile Durkheim (1858–1917). It is a historical perspective that has been neglected until now, and that allows us to appreciate the construction of an idea of hope that frees itself from religious determinants and is oriented toward society and the individuals who live in it, and that anticipates the utopias and failures of the social ideologies of the 20th century.
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20 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Emancipation
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dc.subject
Moses Dobruska
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dc.subject
Henri de Saint-Simon
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Auguste Comte
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Emile Durkheim
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.title
Hope in the Sociological Thoughts of some Founding Fathers
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1007/s12108-022-09555-y
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
The American Sociologist
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
56
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
75
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
54
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-022-09555-y
refubium.affiliation
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Judaistik
refubium.funding
Springer Nature DEAL
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1936-4784