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Anatheism(Illustrated)
Returning to God After God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2011 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14789-7, ISBN: 0-231-14789-9

"Has the passing of the old 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? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between theism and atheism, we now have the opportunity to respond in deeper, freer ways to things we cannot fathom or prove. Distinguish ..."






The God Who May Be(3rd Edition)
A Hermeneutics of Religion (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21489-8, ISBN: 0-253-21489-0

""Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy.... and [he] joins hands with its fundamental project, asking the question 'what'or who'comes after the God of metaphysics?'" --John D. CaputoEngaging some of the most urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that instead of thinking of God as 'actual, ' God might best be thought of ..."






On Stories(Reprint)
(Thinking in Action)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-24798-6, ISBN: 0-415-24798-5

"Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories not ..."






Strangers, Gods and Monsters(1st Edition)
Interpreting Otherness
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-27258-2, ISBN: 0-415-27258-0

"Strangers, Gods and Monster 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 skillfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, go ..."






Modern movements in European philosophy(2nd Edition)
Phenomenology, critical theory, structuralism
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 367 Pages, Published 1994 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-4248-5, ISBN: 0-7190-4248-8

"In this now classic textbook, Richard Kearney surveys the work of nineteen of this 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, whose work in the fields of semiotics and psychoanalytic theory has made a significant contribution to recent continental thought."






The Wake of Imagination(Updated)
Toward a Postmodern Culture
by Richard Kearney, Alan Sanders
Paperback, 467 Pages, Published 1998 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-11950-4, ISBN: 0-415-11950-2

"With his remarkable range of vision, 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."






Poetics of Imagining(2nd Edition)
Modern and Post-modern (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, 6)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1998 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-1872-1, ISBN: 0-8232-1872-4

""Analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur), and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) . . . superb and highly recommended." -The Midwest Book Review"






Sam's Fall(Updated)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1996 by Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-340-66082-9, ISBN: 0-340-66082-1






The Art of Anatheism
(Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion)
by Richard Kearney, Matthew Clemente
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Rowman & Littlefield International
ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-521-4, ISBN: 1-78660-521-X

"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 ..."






Continental Philosophy in the 20th Century
Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 8 (Volume 9)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2003 by Routledge
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-30880-9, ISBN: 0-415-30880-1

"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, including phenomenology, existentialism and postmodernism."






From Text to Action
Essays in Hermeneutics, II (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
by Paul Ricoeur, Kathleen Blamey, Richard Kearney, John B. Thompson, Paul Ricur
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2007 by Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2399-1, ISBN: 0-8101-2399-1

"With his writings on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, ideology, and religion, Paul Ricoeur has single-handedly redefined and revitalized the hermeneutic tradition. "From Text to Action" is an essential companion to the now classic" The Conflict of Interpretation"s. Here, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its own philosophical backgroun ..."






Public Sector Performance
Management, Motivation, and Measurement
by Richard Kearney, Evan Berman
Hardcover, Published 2019 by Taylor And Francis 2019-09-05, London
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-31749-2, ISBN: 0-367-31749-4






Carnal Hermeneutics
From Head to Foot
by Brian Treanor, Richard Kearney
Digital, 408 Pages, Published 2015 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-6590-9, ISBN: 0-8232-6590-0

"Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern. Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Becau ..."






Strangers, Gods and Monsters
Interpreting Otherness
by Richard Kearney
304 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-48387-7, ISBN: 1-134-48387-2

"15 Jean Baudrillard, from 'Simulations' in Continental Aesthetics, ed. R. Kearney and D. Rasmussen, Blackwell, Oxford, 2001, p. 423. 16 Ibid. 17 Ibid. 18 Ibid. 19 J. Baudrillard, 'L'esprit du Terrorisme', Le Monde, 2 November, 2001. 20 Ibid. 21 Ibid. 22 Ibid. Baudrillard writes: Le terrorisme est 1'acte qui restitue une singularite irreductible au coeur d'un systeme d'echange generalise. Toutes les singularites (les especes, les in ..."






Debates in Continental Philosophy(1st Edition)
Conversations with Contemporary Thinkers (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 388 Pages, Published 2004 by Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-2318-3, ISBN: 0-8232-2318-3

"This important book brings together in one volume a collection of illuminating encounters with some of the most important philosophers of our age-by one of its most incisive and innovative critics. For more than twenty years, Richard Kearney has been in conversation with leading philosophers, literary theorists, anthropologists, and religious scholars. His gift is eliciting memorably clear statements about their work from thinkers whose ..."






The Wake of Imagination
by Richard Kearney
480 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-81259-2, ISBN: 1-134-81259-0

"8 For a lucidandsystematic outlineof these three dialectical phases, see Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, Schocken Books, New York, 1967. 9 Kierkegaard'sdescription ofAbraham's existentialcrisisof faith is in FearandTrembling, Princeton ..."






Postnationalist Ireland
Politics, Culture, Philosophy
by Richard Kearney
Digital, 272 Pages, Published 2002 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-134-82170-9, ISBN: 1-134-82170-0

"The encroachment of globalization and demands for greater regional autonomy have had a profound effect on the way we picture Ireland. This challenging new look at the key of sovereignty asks us how we should think about the identity of a postnationalist' Ireland. Richard Kearney goes to the heart of the conflict over demand for communal identity - traditionally expressed by nationalism, and the demand for a universal model of citizens ..."






Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
The God Who May Be : A Hermeneutics of Religion
by Richard Kearney
192 Pages, Published 2001 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-10916-3, ISBN: 0-253-10916-7

"44-48 and p. 220 n. 36; and in my "Heidegger, Le Possible et Dieu," in Heidegger et la question de Dieu, ed. Kearney and O'Leary, pp. 125-167. On the various theological interpretations of Husserl's and Heidegger's phenomenology, especially by figures like Marion, Levinas, and Henry in France, see Dominique Janicaud, Le Toumant theologique de la phenomenologie fran- qaise (1991). See also my "Heidegger's Gods," in Poetics of Modern ..."






Sam's Fall
by Richard Kearney
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1995 by Sceptre
ISBN-13: 978-0-340-63265-9, ISBN: 0-340-63265-8

"Twin brothers, Sam and Jack Toland, grow up in Ireland during the 60s and 70s. After school their paths diverge: Sam decides to become a monk while Jack falls in love with a Swiss photographer, Raphaelle."






States of Mind
Dialogues With Contemporary Thinkers on the European Mind
by Richard Kearney
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Manchester Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-4262-1, ISBN: 0-7190-4262-3

"STANISLAS BRETON Being, God and the poetics of relation Prefatory note Stanislas breton was born in Gironde, France, in 1912. While still in his teens, he joined the Passionist order of Catholic priests. Accordingly, his early philosophical ..."



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