Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Hope in Theory -- From the Concept of Hope to the Principle of Hope -- Hope and its Incongruence with Evil -- Wishful Hoping -- Reflections on a Broken World: Gabriel Marcel and William James on Despair, Hope and Desire -- Hope in Theory and Praxis: From Adorno's Negative Dialects to Benjamin's 'Divine Violence' -- Hope as the Conscious Action Towards an Open Future -- PART II Hope in Action -- Hope When the Game is Over: The Effect of Exploitation on Athletes -- Hope for the Invisible Women of India: Disability, Gender and the Concepts of Karma and Shakti in the Indian Weltanschauung -- Hoping For and Against Hope: Lived Experiences of Hyphenated Dislocated Identities -- Beyond Anticolonial Hope and Postcolonial Despair: A Chicana-Feminist Reconfiguration -- The Affective Politics of Insurgent Hope -- Hope Across the Razor Wire: Student-Inmate Reading Groups at Monroe Correctional Facility.