TY - BOOK AU - Alberto Dominguez Munaiz PY - 2021 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783631851487 TI - Freedom Freed by Hope T2 - A Conversation with Johann B. Metz and William F. Lynch on the ‘Identity Crisis’ in the West DO - 10.3726/b18242 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1111769 N2 - A hopeless individual is more vulnerable and is threatened with indifference, meaninglessness, apathy, anxiety, stress, and despair. Are there symptoms of this in the West? Is it an individual phenomenon or has it been historically-culturally transmitted? This book analyzes, from an interdisciplinary perspective (psychology, sociology, neuroscience, philosophy, theology), how hope contributes to forming a mentally healthy and mature identity. But what hope? Is this just for moments of despair? Can hope free imagination, enlarge desires and rehabilitate the zest for life? Is there a phenomenology of hope? LA - English ER -