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AcknowledgementsHope against hopeTwenty-two short essays on the politics of optimism Immanuel Kant, Choosing what is bestVoltaire, Bien (tout est)Arthur Schopenhauer, Eating the otherBenedict de Spinoza, Hope, faith and judgementFriedrich Nietzsche, Imperfect nihilism Maurice Blanchot, Hope and poetryJacques Derrida, Yes, yesEmmanuel Levinas, Sociality and solitudeSigmund Freud, 'A time-consuming business'Melanie Klein, 'Therapeutic pessimism' in Kristeva's viewJulia Kristeva, 'Psychoanalysis-a Counterdepressant'Walter Benjamin, 'Pessimism all along the line'Theodor Adorno, 'Hurrah-optimism'Hannah Arendt, 'The right to expect miracles'Slavoj Žižek, Hopeless courage (with Hegel and Badiou)Franz Kafka, 'Plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope-but not for us' (re-reading Walter Benjamin)Jacques Derrida, Hegel, Bataille, negativity and affirmationFrantz Fanon, Recognition and conflictHannah Arendt, Violence and powerÉtienne Balibar, Politics and psychoanalysisHans Kelsen, Politics and the 'impolitical'Sigmund Freud, Super-ego politicsindex.
