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- Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense.Richard Kearney -2021 - Columbia University Press.Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How can we come back to our senses? Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. He argues that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to (...) our individual and common selves. Kearney explores the role of touch, from ancient wisdom traditions to modern therapies. He demonstrates that a fundamental aspect of touch is interdependence, its inherently reciprocal nature, which offers a crucial corrective to our fixation with control. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others. (shrink)No categories
- Strangers, Gods, and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness.Richard Kearney -2003 - New York: Routledge.Strangers, Gods and Monster is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skillfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, gods and monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute (...) a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them. (shrink)
- Anatheism: Returning to God After God.Richard Kearney -2009 - Columbia University Press.Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between theism and atheism, we now have the opportunity to respond in deeper, freer ways to things we cannot fathom or prove. Distinguished philosopher Richard Kearney calls (...) this condition _ana-theos_, or God after God-a moment of creative "not knowing" that signifies a break with former sureties and invites us to forge new meanings from the most ancient of wisdoms. Anatheism refers to an inaugural event that lies at the heart of every great religion, a wager between hospitality and hostility to the stranger, the otherthe sense of something "more." By analyzing the roots of our own anatheistic moment, Kearney shows not only how a return to God is possible for those who seek it but also how a more liberating faith can be born. Kearney begins by locating a turn toward sacred secularity in contemporary philosophy, focusing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Ricoeur. He then marks "epiphanies" in the modernist masterpieces of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. Kearney concludes with a discussion of the role of theism and atheism in conflict and peace, confronting the distinction between sacramental and sacrificial belief or the God who gives life and the God who takes it away. Accepting that we can never be sure about God, he argues, is the only way to rediscover a hidden holiness in life and to reclaim an everyday divinity. (shrink)No categories
- The Wake of Imagination.Richard Kearney -1988 - Routledge.With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.
- The God Who May Be: A Hermeneutics of Religion.Richard Kearney -2001 - Indiana University Press.Engaging some of the most recent and more urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that instead of thinking of God as "actual," God might best be thought of as the possibility of the ...No categories
- On Stories.Richard Kearney -2001 - Routledge.Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories not only entertain us but can determine our lives and personal (...) identities. He also considers nations as stories, including the story of Romulus and Remus in the founding of Rome. Throughout, On Stories stresses that, far from heralding the demise of narrative, the digital era merely opens up new stories. (shrink)
- Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers: The Phenomenological Heritage : Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, Herbert Marcuse, Stanislas Breton, Jacques Derrida.Richard Kearney -1984 - Manchester University Press.
- Epiphanies of the Everyday: Toward a Micro-Eschatology.Richard Kearney -2022 - In John Panteleimon Manoussakis,After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy. Fordham University Press. pp. 1-20.No categories
- The Wager of Carnal Hermeneutics.Richard Kearney -2015 - In Richard Kearney & Brian Treanor,Carnal Hermeneutics. New York: Fordham. pp. 15-56.No categories
- On Paul Ricoeur: the Owl of Minerva.Richard Kearney -2004 - Burlington, VT: Ashgate.Study one: Between phenomenology and hermeneutics -- Study two: Between imagination and language -- Study three: Between myth and tradition -- Study four: Between ideology and utopia -- Study five: Between good and evil -- Study six: Between poetics and ethics -- Dialogue 1: Myth as the bearer of possible worlds -- Dialogue 2: The creativity of language -- Dialogue 3: Universality and the power of difference -- Dialogue 4: Imagination, testimony, and trust -- Dialogue 5: On life stories.
- Debates in continental philosophy: conversations with contemporary thinkers.Richard Kearney -2004 - New York: Fordham University Press.This is a collection of illuminating encounters with some of the most important philosophers of our age - by one of its most incisive and innovative critics.
- Poetics of imagining: from Husserl to Lyotard.Richard Kearney -1991 - London: HarperCollinsAcademic.
- What is Diacritical Hermeneutics?Richard M. Kearney -2011 -Journal of Applied Hermeneutics 2011 (1).No categories
- Narrative imagination: between ethics and poetics.Richard Kearney -1995 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 21 (5-6):173-190.
- Anacarnation : recovering embodied life.Richard Kearney -2023 - In Brian Treanor & James Taylor,Anacarnation and returning to the lived body with Richard Kearney. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.No categories
- Questioning ethics: contemporary debates in philosophy.Richard Kearney &Mark Dooley (eds.) -1999 - New York: Routledge.Questioning Ethics is a major discussion by some of world's leading thinkers of some of the most important ethical issues confronting us today. New essays including Habermas, MacIntyre, Ricoeur and Kristeva discuss issues such as the nature of politics, women's rights, lying, repressed memory, historical debt and forgiveness, the self and responsibility, revisionism, bioethics and multiculturalism. The contributors organize their discussions along the topics of hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory, psychoanalysi and the applications of ethics. Also included in this collection is (...) an interview with Jacques Derrida which provides the most accessible insight into his thinking. Contributors: Karl-Otto Apel, Geoffrey Barash, John Caputo, Maeve Cooke, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Simon Glendinning, Jean Greish, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Kearney, Peter Kemp, Julia Kristeva, Alasdair MacIntyre, Thomas McCarthy, David Rasmussen, William J. Richardson, Paul Ricoeur, David Wood. (shrink)
- On Paul Ricoeur: The Owl of Minerva.Richard Kearney -2006 -Utopian Studies 17 (1):270-274.
- Paul Ricoeur and the hermeneutics of translation.Richard Kearney -2007 -Research in Phenomenology 37 (2):147-159.This essay looks at how Ricoeur's hermeneutics functions as both philosophy of translation and philosophy as translation. It starts with a overview of Ricoeur's theories in the light of the history of the philosophy of translation and shows how he, following in the footsteps of Gadamer, understands the act of translation as an art of negotiating and mediating between Self and Other. It then goes on to explore the hermeneutic model of translation, advanced in Ricoeur's later work, in terms of (...) three main paradigms: linguistic, ontological and ethical. The essay concludes with a discussion of the crucial role played by translation in hospitality, pluralism and pardon. (shrink)
- Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality.Richard Kearney &Kascha Semonovitch (eds.) -2022 - Fordham University Press.What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home: when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From Freud to Lacan to Kristeva to Heidegger, the feeling of strangeness--das Unheimlichkeit--has marked our encounter with the other, even the other within our self. Most philosophical attempts to understand the role of the Stranger, human or transcendent, have been limited to standard (...) epistemological problems of other minds, metaphysical substances, body/soul dualism and related issues of consciousness and cognition. This volume endeavors to take the question of hosting the stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination and the senses. This volume plays host to a number of encounters with the strange. It asks such questions as: How does the embodied imagination relate to the Stranger in terms of hospitality or hostility? How do we distinguish between projections of fear or fascination, leading to either violence or welcome? How do humans "sense" the dimension of the strange and alien in different religions, arts, and cultures? How do the five physical senses relate to the spiritual senses, especially the famous "sixth" sense, as portals to an encounter with the Other? Is there a carnal perception of alterity, which would operate at an affective, prereflective, preconscious level? What exactly do "embodied imaginaries" of hospitality and hostility entail, and how do they operate in language, psychology, and social interrelations? And what, finally, are the topical implications of these questions for an ethics and practice of tolerance and peace? (shrink)No categories
- Carnal Hermeneutics.Richard Kearney &Brian Treanor (eds.) -2015 - New York: Fordham.Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes "all the way down," carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. (...) In this volume, an impressive array of today's preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world. (shrink)
- Reimagining the Sacred: Richard Kearney Debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo, David Tracey, Jens Zimmermann, and Merold Westphal.Richard Kearney &Jens Zimmermann (eds.) -2015 - Cambridge University Press.Contemporary conversations about religion and culture are framed by two reductive definitions of secularity. In one, multiple faiths and nonfaiths coexist free from a dominant belief in God. In the other, we deny the sacred altogether and exclude religion from rational thought and behavior. But is there a third way for those who wish to rediscover the sacred in a skeptical society? What kind of faith, if any, can be proclaimed after the ravages of the Holocaust and the many religion-based (...) terrors since? Richard Kearney explores these questions with a host of philosophers known for their inclusive, forward-thinking work on the intersection of secularism, politics, and religion. An interreligious dialogue that refuses to paper over religious difference, these conversations locate the sacred within secular society and affirm a positive role for religion in human reflection and action. Drawing on his own philosophical formulations, literary analysis, and personal interreligious experiences, Kearney develops through these engagements a basic gesture of hospitality for approaching the question of God. His work facilitates a fresh encounter with our best-known voices in continental philosophy and their views on issues of importance to all spiritually minded individuals and skeptics: how to reconcile God's goodness with human evil, how to believe in both God and natural science, how to talk about God without indulging in fundamentalist rhetoric, and how to balance God's sovereignty with God's love. (shrink)
- The Continental Philosophy Reader.Richard Kearney &Mara Rainwater (eds.) -1995 - New York: Routledge._The Continental Philosophy Reader_ is the first complete anthology of classic writings from the major figures in European thought and provides a powerful introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential intellectual movements.
- Philosophies of Touch: from Aristotle to Phenomenology.Richard Kearney -2020 -Research in Phenomenology 50 (3):300-316.This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the senses. It analyses his central insight in the De Anima that tactile flesh is a “medium not an organ,” unpacking both its metaphysical and ethical implications. The essay concludes with a discussion of how contemporary phenomenology—from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray—re-describes Aristotle’s seminal intuition regarding the model of “double reversible sensation.”.
- The Wake of Imagination: Toward a Postmodern Culture.Richard Kearney -1989 -The Personalist Forum 5 (2):152-154.
- A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida.Richard Kearney -2004 -Philosophy Today 48 (1):4-11.This text explores the relationship between politics, terror and religion as discussed in the recent work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Kearney. The dialogue was conducted just weeks after 9/11.
- Paul Ricoeur and the hermeneutic imagination.Richard Kearney -1988 -Philosophy and Social Criticism 14 (2):115-145.
- Radical Hospitality: From Thought to Action.Richard Kearney &Melissa Fitzpatrick -2021 - Fordham University Press.No categories
- Paul Ricoeur: the hermeneutics of action.Paul Ricur &Richard Kearney (eds.) -1996 - Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of Paul Ricoeur's extraordinary body of work. Ricoeur's work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology, and ideology critique in the human sciences. Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself--on Europe, fragility and responsibility, and love and justice--this fascinating volume offers a tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, and the other and deconstruction, while discussing his (...) work in the context of such contemporary thinkers as Heidegger, Levinas, Arendt, and Gadamer. Offering a very useful overview of Paul Ricoeur's enormous contribution to modern thought, Paul Ricoeur will be invaluable for students and academics across the social and human sciences and philosophy. (shrink)
- Myths and Scapegoats: The Case of René Girard.Richard Kearney -1995 -Theory, Culture and Society 12 (4):1-14.
- Beyond Conflict: Radical Hospitality and Religious Identity.Richard Kearney -2011 - In Nathan Eckstrand & Christopher Yates,Philosophy and the return of violence: studies from this widening gyre. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.
- On the Hermeneutics of Evil.Richard Kearney -2006 -Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 2 (2):197-215.No categories
- Ecrire la Chair: L’expression diacritique chez Merleau-Ponty.Richard Kearney -2013 -Chiasmi International 15:183-198.Merleau-Ponty acknowledges several levels of ‘expression’ running from the most basic forms of sensation to painting, poetry and philosophy. This essay concentrates on his notion of ‘diacritical perception’ as key to this expressive continuum. It shows how Merleau-Ponty makes the radical move of bringing together phenomenological description with structural linguistics to reveal how perception is fundamentally structured like language. It also suggests that this move is part of his overall pursuit of an ‘indirect ontology’. Expression operates by an ‘indirect method’ (...) of gaps, elisions, folds, latencies, absences, hollows, silences, lacunas – or what Merleau-Ponty calls ‘negativities that are not nothing’: nothing but the non-being which reveals being. The radical implications of ‘diacritical perception’ are powerfully explored in Merleau-Ponty’s Collège de France seminar Le monde sensible et le monde de l’expression and in his late essay ‘Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence’. To perceive diacritically is to read and write the flesh. (shrink)
- Poetics of the As-If: A Response to B. Keith Putt.Richard Kearney -2021 -Research in Phenomenology 51 (2):297-304.
- Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy.Richard Kearney -1996 - New York: Routledge.The encroachment of globalization and demands for greater regional autonomy have had a profound effect on the way we picture Ireland. This challenging new look at the key of sovereignty asks us how we should think about the identity of a postnationalist' Ireland. Richard Kearney goes to the heart of the conflict over demand for communal identity - traditionally expressed by nationalism, and the demand for a universal model of citizenship - traditionally expressed by republicanism. In so doing, he asks (...) us to question whether the sacrosanct concept of absolute national sovereignty is becoming a luxury ill afforded in the emerging new Europe. Kearney then takes us beyond the political with chapters on the influence of philosophers such as George Berkeley, John Toland and John Tyndall and looks at some of the myths in Irish poetry and nationhood. Postnationalist Ireland provides a recasting of contemporary Irish politics, culture, literature and philosophy and will appeal to students of these subjects and Irish studies in general. (shrink)
- Poetics of modernity: toward a hermeneutic imagination.Richard Kearney -1995 - Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press.
- Ethics and the Postmodern Imagination.Richard Kearney -1987 -Thought: Fordham University Quarterly 62 (1):39-58.
- Evil, Monstrosity and The Sublime.Richard Kearney -2001 -Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 57 (3):485 - 502.This article presents a variety of philosophical answers to the age old question: unde malum - where does evil come from? Starting with the metaphysical responses of Augustine, Hegel and Kant, it proceeds to examine some more recent approaches - Lyotard, Kristeva and Zizek - in terms of the 'postmodern sublime'. He concludes by proposing a 'hermeneutic' response to the problem, inspired by Paul Ricoeur, which seeks to address the question in terms of narrative understanding and practical action. /// O (...) presente artigo apresenta uma série de respostas filosóficas à imemorial questão: unde malum - qual a origem do mal? Partindo das respostas metafísicas de Santo Agostinho, Hegel e Kant, o autor examina depois algumas das abordagens mais recentes ao problema - Lyotard, Kristeva e Zizek - em termos do 'sublime pós-moderno', O artigo conclui com uma proposta 'hermenêutica 'para o problema, proposta essa inspirada no pensamento de Paul Ricoeur e cujo objectivo é elucidar a questão do mal em termos de uma compreensão narrativa e de acção prática. (shrink)
- Healing Touch: Hermeneutics of Trauma and Recovery.Richard Kearney -2020 -Journal of Applied Hermeneutics 2020.This is an edited, abridged, and revised version of a chapter written by Richard Kearney which will appear in his forthcoming book Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense to be published by Columbia University Press in 2021. The chapter in the book contains many extensions, footnotes, and references that do not appear in this paper. Many thanks to Professor Kearney for his permission to print a version of this chapter in the Journal of Applied Hermeneutics. Keywords: touch, trauma, healing, carnal (...) hermeneutics. (shrink)No categories
- Merleau-Ponty and the Sacramentality of the Flesh.Richard Kearney -2010 - In Kascha Semonovitch Neal DeRoo,Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception. Continuum. pp. 147.
- Narrative and the Ethics of Remembrance.Richard Kearney -2003 - In J. Philips & James Morley,Imagination and its Pathologies. MIT Press. pp. 51--63.No categories
- Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Literature.Richard Kearney -forthcoming -Philosophy.
- Poétique du possible: phénoménologie herméneutique de la figuration.Richard Kearney -1984 - Editions Beauchesne.No categories
- States of Mind: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers on the European Mind.Richard Kearney -1995 - Manchester University Press.States of Mind is a series of dialogues conducted by Richard Kearney with twenty-two of the world's leading political, philosophical and literary thinkers. Each has helped to shape the most pressing debates of the century: national and international identity, ethics, art, language, psychology and religion.
- Twentieth-century continental philosophy.Richard Kearney (ed.) -1994 - London ; New York: Routledge.Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and schools, including phenomenology, existentialism and postmodernism.
- Narrating Pain: The Power of Catharsis.Richard Kearney -2007 -Paragraph 30 (1):51-66.This article explores ways in which narrative retelling and remembering might provide cathartic release for sufferers of trauma. It looks at examples drawn from genocide, literature, history and psychotherapy. It draws particularly from Aristotle's theory of mythos-mimesis and Ricœur's theory of narrative configuration.No categories
- Derrida's ethical re-turn.Richard Kearney -1993 - In Gary Brent Madison,Working through Derrida. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. pp. 28--59.
- Narrative and Ethics.Richard Kearney &James Williams -1996 -Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 70 (1):29 - 61.
- Poetics of Modernity. Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination.Richard Kearney -1996 -Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 58 (4):785-786.No categories
- Strangers and others: From deconstruction to hermeneutics.Richard Kearney -2002 -Critical Horizons 3 (1):7-36.This paper argues that what is needed to properly engage the human obsession with strangers and enemies is a critical hermeneutic capable of addressing the dialectic of others and aliens, that is, a hermeneutic that can solicit ethical decisions without succumbing to over hasty acts of binary exclusion. It is argued that we need to be able to critically differentiate between different kinds of otherness, while remaining alert to the deconstructive challenge to black-and-white judgements of us-versus-them. We need, at critical (...) moments, to expose the other in the alien and the alien in the other. (shrink)
- Returning to God after God: Levinas, Derrida, Ricoeur.Richard Kearney -2009 -Research in Phenomenology 39 (2):167-183.This essay discusses the anatheist option of returning to God after the atheistic critique of the traditional God of ontotheology. It begins by reviewing the contributions that Levinas and Derrida have made toward this position and the atheistic criticisms of Freud and Nietzsche. The work of Paul Ricoeur is then discussed, showing how the atheist critique is a necessary moment in the development of genuine faith that involves a renunciation of fear and dependency as well as a reaffirmation of life (...) and a return to existence. Kearney goes on to discuss how this return to God is possible, considering the ethical position that makes it possible, the reinterpretations of biblical traditions that it entails, the relationship between the anatheist philosopher and the theologian, and revival of God as an enabling God. (shrink)
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