If hope is intimate-and-political thing: a critical reflection about "Hope Skills"

Abstract

The essay problematizes the scientific study about «hope as competence».
Starting from the critical analysis of Snyder’s goal-oriented approach, it develops a proposal of hope as a «meta-competence». It’s a systemic posture that includes awareness and acceptance of the limit as crucial for grounding in reality and developes political hope, not only individual. This meta-disciplinary approach evokes “reflective and aesthetic settings” in long-life-education con-texts.