John Lysaker is William R Kenan professor of philosophy at Emory University. His latest book is Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude (2023). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Transcendent experience
idea
Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction
I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
by John Lysaker