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Hosting Earth is a timely and much-needed volume in the emerging literature of environmental philosophy, drawing upon art, science, and politics to explore alternatives to the traditional domination of nature…
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This volume gathers pieces from Richard Kearney’s extraordinarily prolific output, providing the first full overview of his thought.
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Richard Kearney
Richard Kearney shows how stories are deep at work in all forms of writing. He examines the power of the story and its ability to affect both individual and national…
This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney’s recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return…
Paul Ricoeur is one of the giants of contemporary continental philosophy and one of the most enduring and wide-ranging thinkers in the twentieth century, publishing major works ranging from existentialism…
Richard Kearney shows, with the help of examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters; they do…
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Covering all the key thinkers, it assess the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heiddeger, Ricoeur) and post-modernism (Vattimo…
This work brings together in 18 conversations a collection of encounters with significant philosophers.
A collection of illuminating encounters with some of the most important philosophers of our age
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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.
This work provides a recasting of contemporary Irish politics, culture, literature and philosophy by examining the concept of absolute national sovereignty and asking if it is a luxury we can…
On the cusp of WWII, young Maeve O'Sullivan is the last inheritor of the old ways of Irish healing. But change is coming. Torn between the pull of the past…
Continental philosophy is one of the 20th century’s most important and challenging philosophical movements. This volume includes 14 chapters on its major representatives and schools, including phenomenology, existentialism and postmodernism.
Verhalen bieden ons bijzonder veelzijdige en duurzame inzichten in de menselijke conditie en hebben al sinds Aristoteles de aandacht van de filosofie getrokken.
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…
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Presses contemporary philosophy of religion toward a new modes of thinking about God
This volume provides a broad, scholarly introduction to twentieth century continental philosophy for students of philosophy and related disciplines. It includes a glossary of technical terms.
This text surveys the work of 19 of the 20th century’s most influential European thinkers, and acts as an introduction to three major movements: phenomenology, critical theory and structuralism. This…
Analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ric ur), and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) ……
God after God–ana-theos–is a moment of creative not knowing signifying a break with former sureties and inviting the forging of new meanings from the most ancient of wisdoms. Anatheism refers…
As a whole, this volume interprets and challenges Kearney’s philosophy of religion and its radical impact on contemporary views of God.
States of Mind is a series of dialogues conducted by Richard Kearney over the past decade with twenty-two of the world’s political, philosophical and literary thinkers. Each has helped to…
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Who or what comes after God? In the wake of God, as the last fifty years of philosophy has shown, God comes back again, otherwise: Heidegger’s last God, Levinas’s God…
Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.
Investigates interreligious hospitality from five different religious perspectives: Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic. This volume offers five different hermeneutic readings that each wrestle with what interreligious hospitality means and…
Richard Kearney,Melissa Fitzpatrick
Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. The book engages urgent moral conversations concerning…
Chiefly proceedings of a conference held in 2009 at Boston College.
Carnal Hermeneutics offers a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. It engages our finite, spatio-temporal being-in-the-world through an account of meanings involving corporeal sensation, orientation, and linguistic articulation, and…
Richard Kearney,Sheila Gallagher
Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916.
This book proposes a way to think and speak about God in and through our contemporary, secular society, bridging the theist/atheist divide by considering the divine through the lens of…
This volume provides a performance compass for today’s public managers, helping them to reconstruct the public’s confidence in, and support of, government. It examines specific performance management strategies, including those…
Public Sector Performance brings together sector performance, as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Taken as a whole, this volume provides a performance compass for today’s public…
‘The Continental Philosophy Reader’ is an anthology of writings from the major figures in European thought and provides an introduction to one of the 20th century’s intellectual movements.
