Can and should we hope today? Is it even necessary to hope or has it become impossible to hope? The talk explores what hope is and discusses its current significance in the light of its history.
Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Ancient Greek at Heidelberg University and an internationally distinguished public intellectual. Some of his most recent books include Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity (CUP, 2017), The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception (CUP, 2021), Antike und Identität (Morh Siebeck, 2022) and Ancient Greek texts and modern narrative theory (CUP, 2024). In this presentation he will talk about his new book on the history of hope, which traces this elusive - yet fundamentally human - concept from antiquity to the present day.
The talk is organised by Aske Damtoft Poulsen (klas-adeluse) and Lovisa Brännstedt (lovisa.brannstedtklass.luse).
Welcome to a guest lecture with Jonas Grethlein on 20 November 16.15 in LUX:B251