![]() Schumacher notes, “In the history of philosophy, hope has never been a dominant theme it was generally treated, if at all, ‘incidentally,’ just as it continues to be treated today among the majority of philosophers.” 4 Yet the experience of hope is fundamental to the human condition the loss of hope for an individual or for a community can be devastating. 3 Nevertheless, the theme of hope has not been the focus of much philosophical inquiry aside from Kant as Bernard N. 2 “How much I, basically unsuspecting, had fallen into a simply inexhaustible theme, which I had been capable of sketching only in outline at best, became clear to me quite soon,” Pieper notes. 1 About twenty years before Babette’s Feast was published, the German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper wrote a work titled “On the Meaning of Courage.” He was encouraged by his publisher to write treatises on the seven virtues, to which he responded with great enthusiasm, publishing On Hope in 1935. So when she wrote a short piece for an American audience, she centered the transformative action of the story on a splendid meal. Dinesen, a Danish writer, had heard that Americans were interested in stories about food. ![]() ![]() ![]() Isak Dinesen’s Babette’s Feast was first published in 1950 in Ladies’ Home Journal. ![]()
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