Hope is a groundbreaking and timely discussion about contemporary life and how a progressive vision of politics and critical thinking in today's world might be established.

Mary Zournazi, in conversation with leading writers and philosophers from around the world, explores the connections between hope and our capacity to change our situations, to understand and overcome the new forms of fear and alienation in everyday life. Contributing their thoughts and visions to these fascinating conversations, Julia Kristeva, Ghassan Haga, Michel Serres, Alphonso Lingis, Brian Massumi, Christos Tsiolkas and many others provide personal and political accounts of hope, and innovative ways to consider identity, community and class experience.

In its unique and readable method of addressing daily experience, class, migratin, globalisation and revolutionary change in the new millennium, Hope provides fresh insight into what drives our daily hopes and systems of belonging to a community.