Acknowledgments ................................................. viii
Introduction. Trust and Hope ....................................... 1
Esther Oluffa Pedersen and Sune Liisberg
Dialogue One. Practical Philosophy and Hope as a Moral Project
among African-Americans ........................................... 21
Joint Statement ................................................... 23
Cheryl Mattingly and Uffe Juul Jensen
What Can We Hope For? An Exploration in Cosmopolitan
Philosophical Anthropology ........................................ 24
Cheryl Mattingly and Uffe Juul Jensen
References ........................................................ 54
Dialogue Two. Existential Anthropology and the Category of the
New Joint Statement ............................................... 57
Michael D. Jackson and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
The Reopening of the Gate of Effort: Existential Imperatives at
the Margins of a Globalized World
Michael D. Jackson
The Eternal Recurrence of the New ................................. 61
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
Joint Afterword ................................................... 76
Michael D. Jackson and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
References ........................................................ 90
Dialogue Three. Intentional Trust in Uganda ....................... 99
Joint Statement .................................................. 101
Esther Oluffa Pedersen and Lotte Meinert
An Outline of Interpersonal Trust and Distrust ................... 104
Esther Oluffa Pedersen
Tricky Trust: Distrust as a Point of Departure and Trust as
a Social Achievement in Uganda ................................... 118
Lotte Meinert
References ....................................................... 134
Dialogue Four. Trust, Ambiguity, and Indonesian Modernity ........ 137
Joint Statement .................................................. 139
Sune Liisberg and Nils Bubandt
Trust in an Age of Inauthenticity: Power and Indonesian
Modernity ........................................................ 141
Nils Bubandt
Trust as the Life Magic of Serf-Deception: A Philosophical-
Psychological Investigation into Tolerance of Ambiguity .......... 158
Sune Liisberg
References ....................................................... 176
Dialogue Five. Gift-Giving and Power between Trust and Hope ...... 181
Joint Statement .................................................. 183
Sverre Raffnsøe and Hirokazu Miyazaki
Empowering Trust in the New: Trust and Power as Capacities ....... 187
Sverre Raffnsøe
Hope in the Gift—Hope in Sleep ................................... 209
Hirokazu Miyazaki
References ....................................................... 219
Dialogue Six. With Kierkegaard in Africa ......................... 225
Joint Statement .................................................. 227
Anders Мое Rasmussen and Hans Lucht
Self, Hope, and the Unconditional: Kierkegaard on Faith and
Hope ............................................................. 228
Anders Мое Rasmussen
Kierkegaard in West Africa: Hope and Sacrifice in a Ghanaian
Fishing Village .................................................. 243
Hans Lucht
References ....................................................... 255
Epilogue. Anthropology and Philosophy in Dialogue? ............... 257
Anne Line Dalsgard and Soren Harnow Klausen
Notes on Contributors ............................................ 282
Index ............................................................ 286
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