Richard Kearney

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Richard M. Kearney
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Paul Ricoeur
Other academic advisorsCharles Taylor
Main interests
hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, aesthetics
Notable ideas
Diacritical hermeneutics, Carnal hermeneutics,[1] 'Anatheism' [citation needed]
Websiterichardmkearney.com

Richard Kearney (

Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995). He has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and broadcast extensively on the European media. He is currently international director of the Guestbook Project
.

Biography

Kearney studied at

University of Paris X: Nanterre. He corresponded with Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida and other French philosophers of the era.[citation needed][2] He was also active in the Irish, British, and French media as a host for various television and radio programs on literary and philosophical themes. His work focuses on the philosophy of the narrative imagination, hermeneutics and phenomenology
. Notable academic posts include University College of Dublin (1988-2001), The Film School, UCD (1993-2005), the Sorbonne, University of Paris (1995), and Boston College (1999 – present).

Richard Kearney currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is married to Anne Bernard and has two daughters, Simone and Sarah.

Work

Among Kearney's best-known written works are The Wake of the Imagination (Routledge, 1998), Poetics of Imagining (Fordham, 1998), On Stories (Routledge, 2002; translated into Dutch and Chinese), Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness (Routledge, 2003; translated into Greek and Korean), Debates in Continental Philosophy (Fordham, 2004), Modern Movements in European Philosophy (Manchester University Press, 1984), and Anatheism: Returning to God after God (Columbia, 2011; revised editions published in French and Italian).

Kearney's work attempts to steer "a middle path between Romantic hermeneutics (Schleiermacher) which retrieve and reappropriate God as presence and radical hermeneutics (Derrida, Caputo) which elevates alterity to the status of undecidable sublimity."[3] He calls his approach "diacritical hermeneutics."[3]

See also

References

  1. S2CID 141798504
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  2. ISBN 9780719017292
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  3. ^ a b John Protevi (ed.), A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 492.

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