Richard Kearney
Boston College, Philosophy, Faculty Member
- University College Dublin, Philosophy, Department Memberadd
- Carnal Hermeneutics, Narrative Therapy, Phenomenology of the body, Poetics of Imagination, Aesthetics, Philosophy Of Religion, and 10 morePolitical Philosophy, Narrative and Identity, European Politics, Narrative and interpretation, Literary and Cultural Theory, Continental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Memory and Fiction, Symbol Metaphor Myth, and Philosophyedit
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This essay examines the recent critical debate on the hermeneutics of hospitality. It explores the philosophical and ethical implications of Paul Ricoeur's notion of linguistic hospitality as a translation between host and guest, enemy... more
This essay examines the recent critical debate on the hermeneutics of hospitality. It explores the philosophical and ethical implications of Paul Ricoeur's notion of linguistic hospitality as a translation between host and guest, enemy and friend, and compares it to Derrida's notion of impossible hospitality.
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In this interview, conducted by Gonçalo Marcelo, Richard Kearney recaps his intellectual trajec-tory, commenting on his early works on imagination and his own narrative style of doing philosophy in order then to make explicit the deep... more
In this interview, conducted by Gonçalo Marcelo, Richard Kearney recaps his intellectual trajec-tory, commenting on his early works on imagination and his own narrative style of doing philosophy in order then to make explicit the deep connection between the more recent developments of Carnal Hermeneutics, Reimagining the Sacred and the work done with others in the context of the Guestbook Project. Drawing on some lesser-known aspects of his work, he emphasizes the carnal dimension of recognition and discusses the pitfalls of the Age of Excarnation. Finally, and as part of his ongoing role as a public intellectual, he also comments on Europe's social and political situation and the dangers it faces (exacerbated secularization, the threat of terrorism, Brexit) arguing for a pedagogy of narrative exchange as a means to foster hospitality and inclusion.
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"Re-Thinking the Senses" - Prof Richard Kearney to UCD Newman Centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCqV8MAEpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWCqV8MAEpE
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In the Wake of Trauma: Psychology and Philosophy for the Suffering Other 4. Writing Trauma: Narrative Catharsis inHomer, Shakespeare, and Joyce By Richard Kearney 5. Catharsis and Peripeteia: Considering Kearney and the Healing... more
In the Wake of Trauma: Psychology and Philosophy for the Suffering Other
4. Writing Trauma: Narrative Catharsis inHomer, Shakespeare, and Joyce
By Richard Kearney
5. Catharsis and Peripeteia: Considering Kearney and the Healing Function of Narrative
By Stuart A. Pizer
4. Writing Trauma: Narrative Catharsis inHomer, Shakespeare, and Joyce
By Richard Kearney
5. Catharsis and Peripeteia: Considering Kearney and the Healing Function of Narrative
By Stuart A. Pizer
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Carnal Hermeneutics, ed. Kearney and Treanor, Fordham University Press, 2015
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New Literary History, 2, Fall 2015
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in 'Ethos europäischer Gastlichkeit/Contours of an Ethos of European Hospitality' edited by Michael Staudigl and Andris Breitling, Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2015
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in 'Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue Boundaries: Transgressions and Innovations' Edited by Marianne Moyaert and Joris Geldhof, Bloomsbury, 2015
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Du Texte Au Phenomene: Parcours de Paul Ricoeur, Éditions Mimesis/L’esprit Des Signes, 2015
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Filosofia e Teologia (Roma, 2014)
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New York Times: Opinionator, The Stone, August 30, 2014
"Are we losing our senses? In our increasingly virtual world, are we losing touch with the sense of touch itself? And if so, so what?"
"Are we losing our senses? In our increasingly virtual world, are we losing touch with the sense of touch itself? And if so, so what?"
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Theopoetics names the notion that the divine (theos) manifests itself as creative making (poiesis). Anatheism expresses the attendant claim that this making takes the form of a second creation – re-creation or creation again (ana) – where... more
Theopoetics names the notion that the divine (theos) manifests itself as creative making (poiesis). Anatheism expresses the attendant claim that this making takes the form of a second creation – re-creation or creation again (ana) – where humanity and divinity collaborate in the coming of the Kingdom. The Art of Anatheism brings together philosophers, theologians, and artists to open up the question of the relationship between artistic creation and the divine.
The book asks the question – how can God happen again after the death of God? It answers it by proposing an ‘art of anatheism’ which attends to the recreation and return of the divine through certain forms of literature, painting, liturgy, music, and performance. Engaging students, scholars, and interested readers across a wide range of disciplines – philosophy, theology, aesthetics, literary criticism, poetics – the volume includes contributions from both practising artists and professional academics. As such it brings together examples from ancient religious wisdom traditions and cutting-edge contemporary cultural practices to suggest that the sacred is often most potent and persuasive when recreating the everyday world of our secular experience.
The book asks the question – how can God happen again after the death of God? It answers it by proposing an ‘art of anatheism’ which attends to the recreation and return of the divine through certain forms of literature, painting, liturgy, music, and performance. Engaging students, scholars, and interested readers across a wide range of disciplines – philosophy, theology, aesthetics, literary criticism, poetics – the volume includes contributions from both practising artists and professional academics. As such it brings together examples from ancient religious wisdom traditions and cutting-edge contemporary cultural practices to suggest that the sacred is often most potent and persuasive when recreating the everyday world of our secular experience.
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... Interestingly, Kabir refers frequently to God as a stranger at the door, an unexpected visitor from afar, a migrant lover with nowhere to lay his head. ... The root pet or pot in turn carries the meaning of power and mastery... more
... Interestingly, Kabir refers frequently to God as a stranger at the door, an unexpected visitor from afar, a migrant lover with nowhere to lay his head. ... The root pet or pot in turn carries the meaning of power and mastery (potestas) or capacity and potential (potest). ...
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... Paris, 1981 The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, Blackwater Press, Dublin, 1982 The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions, Wolfhound Press, Dublin/Humanities Press Inc., 1984 Page 5. MODERN MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY... more
... Paris, 1981 The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, Blackwater Press, Dublin, 1982 The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions, Wolfhound Press, Dublin/Humanities Press Inc., 1984 Page 5. MODERN MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY Richard Kearney (TO ...
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 1. Deconstruction in a Nutshell A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, edited and with a Commentary by John D. Caputo 2. Michael Barber, EthicalHermeneutics. Rationality in Enrique Dussel's... more
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 1. Deconstruction in a Nutshell A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, edited and with a Commentary by John D. Caputo 2. Michael Barber, EthicalHermeneutics. Rationality in Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation 3. Michael ...
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any... more
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without ...
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STRANGERS, GODS AND MONSTERS Strangers, Gods and Monsters 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... more
STRANGERS, GODS AND MONSTERS Strangers, Gods and Monsters 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 skilfully shows, with the ...
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... Page 13. or a Ballinrobe romance, or 'Jacky Dory', or 'The Happy Prince', or other stories that never seemed to tire of being told. ... For it is my conviction that if narrative... more
... Page 13. or a Ballinrobe romance, or 'Jacky Dory', or 'The Happy Prince', or other stories that never seemed to tire of being told. ... For it is my conviction that if narrative calls at times for critical and theoretical interpretation, it also enchants us with the sheer magic of imagination. ...
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Richard Kearney (has) . . . energy and irilliance' The Irish Times )r. Richard Kearney believes that Ireland las witnessed a crisis of culture in the wentieth century. This work offers a num- >er of studies of this transitional... more
Richard Kearney (has) . . . energy and irilliance' The Irish Times )r. Richard Kearney believes that Ireland las witnessed a crisis of culture in the wentieth century. This work offers a num- >er of studies of this transitional crisis, pitomized by the tension between tradition nd ...
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[1] In this volume Richard Kearney takes up the challenge to reflect on God 'after the God of metaphysics'. In the introduction he presents this volume as a kind of assemblage of thoughts on God, stemming from his doctoral... more
[1] In this volume Richard Kearney takes up the challenge to reflect on God 'after the God of metaphysics'. In the introduction he presents this volume as a kind of assemblage of thoughts on God, stemming from his doctoral studies on Ricoeur and the co-editing of Heidegger et ...
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Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, vol. 2, chapter 7
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In the second half of the traumatic and explosive twentieth century, thinkers began considering the possibility of viewing our time as a new Axial Age affecting all areas of existence and thinking. In theological philosophy the... more
In the second half of the traumatic and explosive twentieth century, thinkers began considering the possibility of viewing our time as a new Axial Age affecting all areas of existence and thinking. In theological philosophy the interpretation of God and of the self in relation to God continues to change in the direction of a growing awareness of God's otherness while celebrating this very otherness. An effervescent debate on the meaning of God and of God's Other, and the future of a continental philosophy of religion after Nietzsche–Altizer's kerygma of the " death of God " has been enlivening ever wider circles in and outside American and European academe. Various debates have opened up in relation to this theme and inhabit presently the center of what has been identified as the " theological turn " in phenomenology and hermeneutics. The contemporary conversation has enlisted prominent thinkers – belonging to diverse generations, intellectual backgrounds, and academic spheres – such as
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In the Wake of Trauma: Psychology and Philosophy for the Suffering Other
1. Trauma, Tragedy, and Theater: a Conversation with Simon Critchley
Eric R. Severs, Simon Critchley, Ann Pellegrini,
Richard Kearney, and Kathleen Skerrett
1. Trauma, Tragedy, and Theater: a Conversation with Simon Critchley
Eric R. Severs, Simon Critchley, Ann Pellegrini,
Richard Kearney, and Kathleen Skerrett
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New York Times: Opinionator, The Stone, August 30, 2014
"Are we losing our senses? In our increasingly virtual world, are we losing touch with the sense of touch itself? And if so, so what?"
"Are we losing our senses? In our increasingly virtual world, are we losing touch with the sense of touch itself? And if so, so what?"
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Richard Kearney reviews Fanny Howe's The Needle's Eye.
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Richard Kearney reviews Jason M. Wirth's Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
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The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) Colloquium Series
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From Philosophers Find God: Examining the Ideas of Modern Philosophers Who Locate God in the Hearts of Worshippers by Henry L. Ruf
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by L. Callid Keefe-Perry, Way to Water: a Theopoetics Primer (Cascade Books, 2015)
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by John D. Caputo
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By Sebastian Purcell
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... As he suggests, at this fundamental level, Kristeva's work, especially in Strangers to Ourselves 'expresses the uni-versal experience of a deep unconscious ... outsiders, and whether these out-siders will be... more
... As he suggests, at this fundamental level, Kristeva's work, especially in Strangers to Ourselves 'expresses the uni-versal experience of a deep unconscious ... outsiders, and whether these out-siders will be hospitably greeted as others, in his use of the term, or demo-nized as ...
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ABSTRACT The article considers a particular case of Richard Kearney's characteristic hermeneutical exploration of `the possible' as an `imaginative' way of casting light upon philosophical issues. This particular... more
ABSTRACT The article considers a particular case of Richard Kearney's characteristic hermeneutical exploration of `the possible' as an `imaginative' way of casting light upon philosophical issues. This particular case is his recent hermeneutical and phenomenological consideration of `Otherness' in the context of philosophy of religion. This consideration, strongly influenced by philosophers such as Heidegger, Levinas, Ricoeur and Derrida, is developed in two of his recent works Strangers, Gods and Monsters and The God Who May Be.
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The purpose of the present essay is to defend two related notions. The more specific notion that I seek to defend is Richard Kearney’s conception of God as posse, of God as a possible God. His position has recently been criticized for... more
The purpose of the present essay is to defend two related notions. The more specific notion that I seek to defend is Richard Kearney’s conception of God as posse, of God as a possible God. His position has recently been criticized for three separate reasons: that it is not radical enough, that it is crypto-metaphysical, and that it forecloses the most profound aims of ethics. At a broader level what seems to be at stake is the opposition between partisans of radical finitude, those who hold that the most profound questions are encountered at the limits of thought, and an alternative “infinite” conception that Kearney shares with Paul Ricoeur, which maintains that fidelity to unpredictable events opens the way to what is most profound about the human condition. In response,
I argue that the criticisms fail to hit their mark because they presuppose a broadly Derridean or post-modern position in order to make their argument, when it is just those presuppositions
that are in question.
I argue that the criticisms fail to hit their mark because they presuppose a broadly Derridean or post-modern position in order to make their argument, when it is just those presuppositions
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The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures—and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology,... more
The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures—and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of literature, the volume questions the orthodoxies not only of Western metaphysics but even of the phenomenological tradition itself. We miss much that has philosophical import when we exclude the somatic aspects of human life, and it is therefore the philosopher’s duty now to rediscover the meaning inherent in desire, emotion, and passion—without letting the biases of any tradition determine in advance the meaning that reveals itself in embodied desire. Continental philosophers have already done much to challenge binary oppositions, and this volume sets out a new challenge: we must now also question the dichotomy between being at home and being alienated. Alterity is not simply something out there, separate from myself; rather, it penetrates me through and through, even in my corporeal experience. My body is both my own and other; I am other than myself and therefore other than my body. Additionally, this book is a conversation, not a presentation of a new orthodoxy. Thus, the hope is that these essays will open the way for further dialogue that will continue to radically rethink our understanding of embodied desire. Gathered together here are twelve essays that address these issues from deeply interrelated albeit unique perspectives from within the field.