Loren Goldman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and scholarly volumes, and co-translated, annotated, and wrote the introduction to Ernst Bloch's Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left.

The Principle of Political Hope is an erudite, wide-ranging, and engaging study of the concept of political hope that puts German critical theory into productive conversation with American pragmatism. Differentiating hope from optimism and freeing it from the baggage of developmentalist readings of history, Goldman recuperates hope as a practical, political orientation, one that finds its fullest realization in democratic experimentation.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Kant, Practical Belief, and the Regulative Idea of Progress Chapter 2: Bloch and Latent Utopia Chapter 3: The Logic and Vitality of Ends in Peirce and James Chapter 4: Dewey and Democratic Experimentation Conclusion: Hope and the Production of a Transformable World Notes References Index

Loren Goldman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and scholarly volumes, and co-translated, annotated, and wrote the introduction to Ernst Bloch's Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left.

The Principle of Political Hope is an erudite, wide-ranging, and engaging study of the concept of political hope that puts German critical theory into productive conversation with American pragmatism. Differentiating hope from optimism and freeing it from the baggage of developmentalist readings of history, Goldman recuperates hope as a practical, political orientation, one that finds its fullest realization in democratic experimentation.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Kant, Practical Belief, and the Regulative Idea of Progress Chapter 2: Bloch and Latent Utopia Chapter 3: The Logic and Vitality of Ends in Peirce and James Chapter 4: Dewey and Democratic Experimentation Conclusion: Hope and the Production of a Transformable World Notes References Index