Sune Liisberg is an External Lecturer of philosophy of psychology and intercultural communication at Aarhus University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas in Aarhus in 2008, and has since published on a variety of topics primarily within the fields of existential philosophy and phenomenology.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Trust and Hope: An Introduction
Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Sune Liisberg

Dialogue I: Practical Philosophy and Hope as a Moral Project among African-Americans
Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen

Joint Statement

What Can We Hope For? An Exploration in Cosmopolitan Philosophical Anthropology
Cheryl Mattingly & Uffe Juul Jensen

Dialogue II: Existential Anthropology and the Category of the New
Michael D. Jackson & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Joint Statement

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
Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

Joint Afterword

Dialogue III: Intentional Trust in Uganda
Esther Oluffa Pedersen & Lotte Meinert

Joint Statement

An Outline of Interpersonal Trust and Distrust
Esther Oluffa Pedersen

Tricky Trust: Distrust as a Point of Departure and Trust as a Social Achievement in Uganda
Lotte Meinert

Dialogue IV: Trust, Ambiguity, and Indonesian Modernity
Sune Liisberg & Nils Bubandt

Joint Statement

Trust in an Age of Inauthenticity: Power and Indonesian Modernity
Nils Bubandt

Trust as the Life Magic of Self-Deception: A Philosophical-Psychological Investigation into Tolerance of Ambiguity
Sune Liisberg

Dialogue V: Gift-Giving and Power between Trust and Hope
Sverre Raffnsøe & Hirokazu Miyazaki

Joint Statement

Empowering Trust in the New: Trust and Power as Capacities
Sverre Raffnsøe

Hope in the Gift-Hope in Sleep
Hirokazu Miyazaki

Dialogue VI: With Kierkegaard in Africa
Anders Moe Rasmussen & Hans Lucht

Joint Statement

Self, Hope, and the Unconditional: Kierkegaard on Faith and Hope
Anders Moe Rasmussen

Kierkegaard in West Africa: Hope and Sacrifice in a Ghanaian Fishing Village
Hans Lucht

Epilogue: Anthropology and Philosophy in Dialogue?
Anne Line Dalsgård & Søren Harnow Klausen

Notes on Contributors