Richard Kearney è un professore di filosofia il cui lavoro si concentra sulla filosofia dell'immaginazione narrativa, l'ermeneutica e la fenomenologia. La sua vasta carriera accademica ha comportato l'insegnamento presso prestigiose università globali e il confronto con pensatori di spicco della sua epoca. Gli scritti di Kearney esplorano come le storie plasmano la nostra comprensione del mondo e di noi stessi. I suoi contributi offrono profonde intuizioni sull'interconnessione tra linguaggio, cultura ed esperienza umana.
Set in 1939 Ireland, the story follows Maeve O'Sullivan, who inherits her family's traditional healing practices after her father's death. As she navigates her grief, her life is further complicated by the arrival of Seamus, a charming medical student destined for Dublin. Maeve faces a pivotal choice between embracing her ancestral legacy and pursuing a modern future, highlighting the tension between tradition and progress.
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. 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.
Streitgespräche zur Gottesfrage
Richard Kearney hat zentrale religiose Fragen zum Glauben und zu Glaubenszweifeln, zu Theismus, Atheismus, Agnostizismus und Humanismus mit bedeutenden Gesprachspartner diskutiert. Der Band bietet wichtige Impulse aus den Diskussionen etwa mit Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo und David Tracy.
How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten? One hundred years after the Easter Rising, Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916. Using word and image artist Sheila Gallagher and philosopher Richard Kearney retrieve some neglected micro-narratives of Irish historical trauma to illustrate how memory occurs at the cross section of story and history. In an inventive combination of archival imagery , historical records and narrative imagination, they mine the past for potential futures in a process of healing and recovery.
Leading philosopher Richard Kearney engages Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, James Wood, Charles Taylor, Catherine Keller, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, and John Caputo on the place of religion in a secular world.
Qual è il luogo dove nasce la poesia? Una domanda che percorre tutta l'opera che Bachelard ha dedicato all'individuazione di quel luogo particolare, specifico, nel quale sorge l'immaginazione e si fa parola, verso. E' uno spazio attraversato da alcuni grandi temi costanti: la vita, la morte, l'amore, la natura. Tra questi, Bachelard individua anche "lo spazio": quello aperto dei grandi orizzonti, del cielo, del mare, e quello chiuso, delimitato dalla casa. Uno spazio della "immensità intima", dove la nostra esperienza trova la sua dimora, il "guscio" entro cui riparare e ritrovarsi
Has the death of 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? This book explores this question and argues how by accepting that we know nothing about God, we can rediscover an absent holiness in our lives and reclaim an everyday divinity.
Focusing on Richard Kearney's significant influence in philosophical and religious hermeneutics, this study explores his theories on imagination and political thought. It highlights the breadth of his contributions and their relevance to contemporary philosophical discourse, showcasing Kearney's role in shaping modern thought.
This collection contains writings on Irish politics, literature, drama, and visual arts, along with a series of dialogues with important cultural and intellectual figures. Previously unpublished pieces include essays on Joyce and on the Irish Hunger Memorial in New York City and a dialogue with Georges Dumézil on myth.
Engaging critically with Paul Ricoeur's extensive philosophical contributions, Richard Kearney introduces his hermeneutic philosophy and explores key themes such as phenomenology, language, myth, ideology, evil, and ethics. The book is divided into two parts: the first delves into Ricoeur's central ideas, while the second features five dialogues between Kearney and Ricoeur, tracing his intellectual journey from 1977 to 2003. This work is designed for both students and general readers seeking insight into Ricoeur's significant impact on contemporary philosophy.