{"product_id":"on-hope-and-holy-anarchism","title":"On Hope and Holy Anarchism","description":"On Hope and Holy Anarchism offers an original scholarly work attempting to develop the standpoint of those who think of themselves as religious\/Christian anarchists, or who are interested in understanding anarchism.   Holy anarchism, Andrew Shanks argues, is in one sense a name for the ethos of the Sermon on the Mount. But in another sense, it is an ideal that has only now become fully thinkable: in the world of present-day civil society and its public conscience movements. Dorothy Day is officially a candidate for canonisation, expected to be the first Roman Catholic official saint to have been, in her own lifetime, a self-professed ‘anarchist’.   Part One of On Hope and Holy Anarchism consists of a grand-narrative meditation on this and a critical dialogue with the great Marxist philosopher, author of The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch.   Part Two consists of two portraits: one of Dorothy Day and the other of the Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox pioneer educationalist Asfaw Yemiru.   Part Three is largely focused on recruiting the philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937 – 2014) to the cause of ‘holy anarchism’. Henri Bergson’s distinction between ‘static’ and ‘dynamic religion’ also features here: inasmuch as ‘holy anarchism’, Shanks argues, essentially liberates the latter from the former.   Here, ‘holy anarchism’ is discussed in three genres – grand narrative\/biography\/[trans-]metaphysics – to provide a rounded, three-dimensional celebration. The three genres are complementary, each strengthening the other two.   Hope, it is argued here, is truly a virtue insofar as it energises our response to the infinite imperatives of ‘truth-as-openness’.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536441155957,"sku":"9780334067849","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780334067849.jpg?v=1788186201","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/on-hope-and-holy-anarchism","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}