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'Hope-full purpose': Time, oblivion, and the strange attractors of Pandora's box (2019)
Book Chapter
Longman, R. (2019). 'Hope-full purpose': Time, oblivion, and the strange attractors of Pandora's box. In D. Ericsson, & M. Kostera (Eds.), Organizing Hope: Narratives for a Better Future (85-95). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788979443.00016

Hope lacks an obvious conceptual clarity. Yet, as a defining feature of utopian thought, it suggests a potential for new social relations (Levitas, 2010). To explore such potentiality, this chapter conceptualises “hope-full purpose”—a construction th... Read More about 'Hope-full purpose': Time, oblivion, and the strange attractors of Pandora's box.