Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society

Amsler, Sarah

Authors

Sarah Amsler



Contributors

Ana C. Dinerstein
Editor

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2016. Drawing on the critical theories of Ernst Bloch and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, as well as on the knowledge and learning practices of counter-capitalist social movements, Amsler’s chapter offers a reading of political hopelessness amongst educators in England through a critical epistemology which discloses it as ‘unfinished’ and potent material within a global politics of possibility. She invokes methods from Bloch’s critical process-philosophy of ‘learning hope’ which allows for three reality-shifting operations: (1) the making of distinctions between what is ʼnot’, ʼnot-yet’ and ʼnothing’ in experience and historical process; (2) identifying and creating ‘fronts’ of possibility for mediating reality in concretely utopian ways; and (3) the recognition of a multiplicity of anti-hegemonic scales and modes of transformation, and explains why these matter in movements not just for social change but for the immanent creation of an other reality.

Citation

Amsler, S. (2016). Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society. In A. C. Dinerstein (Ed.), Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes (19-32). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2

Online Publication Date Dec 16, 2016
Publication Date Dec 15, 2016
Deposit Date Sep 14, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 19-32
Book Title Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes
Chapter Number 2
ISBN 9783319477756
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2
Keywords Bloch, Ernst; Critical epistemology; Education, politics of; Hope, learning; Pedagogy, critical; Possibility, politics of; Santos, Boaventura de Sousa
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/833223
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47776-3_2
Related Public URLs https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319477756
http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319477756
Additional Information This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319477756.

Files






You might also like



Downloadable Citations