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Richard Kearney is Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. His many publications include The Wake of Imagination (1988), On Stories (2002), Strangers, Gods, and Monsters (2003), Anatheism (2011), and Navigations (2007).
M. E. Littlejohn lectures in Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick and he is a visiting researcher at Sorbonne Université.
Introduction: Reading Richard Kearney / Part I: Thinking Imagination (Poetics, Literature, Culture) / Introduction / 1. Imagination Now / 2. Narrative Matters / 3. Writing Trauma and Narrative Catharsis / 4. Post-Modern Mirrors of Fiction / 5. The Narrative Imagination / Part II: Reading Life (Hermeneutics, Semiotics, Psychoanalysis) / Introduction / 6. Welcoming the Stanger / 7. Strangers, Gods and Monsters / 8. Diacritical Hermeneutics: Reading Between the Lines / 9. Carnal Hermeneutics / 10. Hermeneutics of Wounds / Part III: The Religious Wager (Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology of God, Inter-Religious Dialogue) / Introduction / 11. Anatheism: God After God / 12. Possiblizing God / 13. Epiphanies of the Everyday / 14. Eros Ascending and Descending / 15. Making God: A Theopoetic / Part IV: Philosophy in Action (Ethics, Politics, Critical Theory) / Introduction / 16. Between Poetics and Ethics / 17. On Terror / 18. Aliens and Others / 19. Towards a Post-Nationalist Archipelago / 20. The Wager of Hospitality / Epilogue: Richard Kearney Now / Bibliography / Index
Murray E. Littlejohn has prepared a gift for those new to Richard Kearney’s work and a valuable compendium for those already familiar. It is an exceptional constellation of essays that map the contours of Kearney’s ranging conversations and comprehensive writings on the imagination. More than this, it is a catalyst for further reflections on the imagination with Kearney and the philosophical hermeneutical tradition from which he was formed. Such reflections are vital for our times disciplined by imaginations contained, embraced, and subjected by economic and technological rationalities, wherein nothing and no one remains exempt from the market or the machine. Kearney’s writings, as this collection has gathered, offer help—help to imagine again, to imagine differently.
— Ashley John Moyse, McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford
An invaluable resource for anyone interested in Richard Kearney’s continuous impact and influence on the fields of philosophy and religion, not least because of its helpful introduction to Kearney’s work, his background, and the philosophical legacy that he was schooled in and continues to advance.
— Michael Oliver, Departmental Lecturer in Modern Theology, University of Oxford
Now for half a century, Richard Kearney has walked and thought through our age of nihilism with courage and lucidity. And he has told us not only how to understand it correctly, but how to survive it. By focusing on imagination, possibility, the event to come and anatheism, he shows, humbly but forcefully, that we may still live, breathe and inhabit the world with someone like God.
— Jean-Luc Marion, Académie Française, author of 'God Without Being and Being Given'
In the intellectual effervescence of this unfixed “now,” we are treated to the fresh history and dauntless eschatology of Richard Kearney's polymorphic poetics. Art and ethics, flesh and wound, carnality and trauma, politics and epiphany: the essays resonate together in this after-God of a God in the making.
— Catherine Keller, Drew Theological School