Bücher von Richard Kearney

It's 1939 and young Maeve O'Sullivan and her family are among the last inhabitants of a windswept island off the south coast of Ireland. After her father's death, Maeve finds herself the last inheritor of the old ways of healing. But the future beckons to Maeve with the arrival of Seamus, a handsome young medical student heading for Dublin. Maeve suddenly finds herself at a crossroads, torn between the pull of the past and the lure of the modern. Must she sacrifice one in order to accommodate the other? St Brigid, patroness of poetry, craft and midwifery, hovers over this richly evocative story about the tension between progress and tradition. Timely and timeless, Kearney's novel offers sensual homage to a singular landscape brimming with a Gaelic wisdom about the natural world.

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy?Following Cavell's lead to think along the tear of the analytic-continental traditions, this book draws from both sides of the philosophical divide to reflect on this question. Spanning generations and disciplines, pondering everything from art house classics to mainstream blockbusters, Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies aims to fling open the doors to this conversation on all sides. Inquiring into both philosophy's word on film and film's word to philosophy, the interdisciplinary dialogue of this book traverses the conceptual and the particular as it considers how film catalyzes our thinking and sets us talking. After viewing the world through film, we find our world--and ourselves--transformed by deeper understanding and new possibilities.This book aims to provide a novel and engaging way in to thinking with and about this enduringly popular art form.

Richard Kearney hat zentrale religiöse Fragen zum Glauben und zu Glaubenszweifeln, zu Theismus, Atheismus, Agnostizismus und Humanismus mit bedeutenden Gesprächspartner 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.

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 identity, nationality, immigration, peace, and justice for the work of living together.

Verhalen bieden ons bijzonder veelzijdige en duurzame inzichten in de menselijke conditie en hebben al sinds Aristoteles de aandacht van de filosofie getrokken.

This work brings together in one volume a collection of encounters with some of the most significant philosophers of our time. Here, he brings together eighteen conversations.

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 and phenomenology to psychoanalysis, politics, religion and the theory of language. Richard Kearney offers a critical engagement with the work of Ricoeur, beginning with a general introduction to his hermeneutic philosophy. Part one explores some of the main themes in Ricouer's thought under six headings: phenomenology and hermeneutics; language and imagination; myth and tradition; ideology and utopia; evil and alterity; poetics and ethics. The second part comprises five dialogical exchanges which Kearney has conducted with Ricoeur over the last three decades (1977-2003), charting and explaining his intellectual itinerary. This book is aimed at a broad student readership as well as the general intelligent reader interested in knowing more about one of the most enduring major figures in contemporary continental philosophy.

This work looks at the key issue of sovereignty, and asks how we should think about the identity of a "postnationalist" Ireland. It questions whether the sacrosanct concept of absolute national sovereignty is becoming a luxury ill afforded in the emerging new Europe.

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.

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.

This is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Richard Kearney shows, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters,

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 edition includes a chapter devoted to Julia Kristeva.