Papers by Richard Kearney
Philosophical Studies, 1981
Philosophical Studies, 1984
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001
This article attempts to sketch out a critical history of ‘hermeneutics,’ defined simply as ‘the ... more This article attempts to sketch out a critical history of ‘hermeneutics,’ defined simply as ‘the science and art of interpretation,’ from the Renaissance to the present. Beginning with the efforts of Johann Conrad Dannhauer (1603–66), it describes how the art of interpretation, practiced mainly by biblical exegetes up to and including the early modern period, became fundamental to the philosophical quest for truth and meaning. If the romantic hermeneutics of the nineteenth century—exemplified most especially in the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) and Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911)—stressed the importance of trying to recreate both the world and the psychological profile of those who went before in an effort to understand the present, the phenomenological hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) and Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–) underscored the truly universal nature of the interpretative process. Before we can scientifically objectify the world, they claim, we are already interpreting it. There are, in other words, no uninterpreted facts of the matter. The critical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur (1913–) and the critical theory of Jurgen Habermas (1929–) demonstrate how the intuitions of both Heidegger and Gadamer can be appropriated in an effort to debunk prevailing political ideologies. As such, contemporary hermeneutics is preoccupied with the problem of how to relieve the present of the burden of the past, so as to make possible a future which is different from both.
... Infine, un ringrazia-mento speciale va a Brian O'Connor e Tim Mooney per averci aiut... more ... Infine, un ringrazia-mento speciale va a Brian O'Connor e Tim Mooney per averci aiutato a organizzare il Graduate Programme in Contemporary European Philosophy di recente formazione ea Eileen Brennan, Eoin O'Connell, Brian Garvey e John Gorman per la loro preziosa ...
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, 2019
A precarious balance exists between remaining faithful to one’s own language and history while al... more A precarious balance exists between remaining faithful to one’s own language and history while also maintaining an ethical attentiveness to the Other. The danger in the former is the penchant for colonizing and violently reducing the Other. The danger of the later is a supine servility and inability to offer a linguistic home for welcoming the Other. To navigate these two extremes, the conditional hospitality of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics is brought into dialogue with the unconditional hospitality of Derrida’s deconstruction. What is needed is the more embodied approach of a carnal hospitality that assists in discerning the right ways of touching and not touching, of uniting word and body, teaching us how to incarnate the impossible possibility of reconciliation and forgiveness with the stranger.
Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance, 2010
He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and... more He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 15 more. He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin. As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995) and in speechwriting for the Irish President, Mary Robinson. He has presented five series on culture, thought and literature for Irish and/or British television and broadcast extensively on the European media. His most recent work in philosophy comprises a trilogy entitled 'Philosophy at the Limit'. The three volumes are
Symposium, 2004
Gary Madison's thinking about postmodernity has implications not only for how we rethink hermeneu... more Gary Madison's thinking about postmodernity has implications not only for how we rethink hermeneutic questions of interpretation, but also for new ways of envisioning political identity. Madison's commitment to a Gadamerian hermeneutics of tradition and historical belonging seems, on the face of it, incompatible with his commitment to radical postmodernism. But the opposition is only apparent. In fact, postmodern politics, as Madison argues, is directionless without some basic hermeneutic discernments between competing claims for our sense of socio-political allegiance. More specifically, Madison maintains that the whole hermeneutical-theoretical enterprise, committed to values of communicative rationality, seeks not only to understand but to transform social praxis itself. So doing, Madison invokes, on the one hand, Gadamer's equation of reason with freedom, and on the other, the claim by the American Founders that "free communication [is] the only effectual guardian of every other right."The values of postmodern hermeneutics-defined by Madison as tol,erance, reasonableness, and the attempt to work out mutual agreements by means of discourse rather than by force-are, he holds, identical with those of genuine democratic politics. His position here is unambiguous: "To the degree that democracy is that form of social and political order that our postmodern times call for, to that degree hermeneutical theory provides the philosophical underpinning for a genuine 'politics of postmodernity.,,,l Theory and practice are inextricable
Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 2006
En prenant pour objet le développement de sa réflexion sur cette question depuis le début de son ... more En prenant pour objet le développement de sa réflexion sur cette question depuis le début de son oeuvre philosophique jusqu'à sa dernière période, l'auteur tente de comprendre la manière dont Ricoeur rend compte de ce phénomène en examinant trois axes majeurs dans la confrontation au mal : la compréhension pratique du mal (phronesis-mimesis-praxis), l'élaboration d'une réponse au problème (catharsis-Durcharbeitung), le pardon. ABSTRACT.-This study examines the question of evil in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. In interpreting the development of his reflection on this question from the beginning of his philosophical production until his final period, the author attempts to comprehend the way in which Ricoeur accounts for this phenomenon in analyzing three major ways of approach to evil : a) practical understanding (phronesis-mimesis-praxis), b) working-through (catharsis-Durcharbeitung), and c) pardon.
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 1990
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This is an edited, abridged, and revised version of a chapter written by Richard Kearney which wi... more This is an edited, abridged, and revised version of a chapter written by Richard Kearney which will appear in his forthcoming book Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense to be published by Columbia University Press in 2021. The chapter in the book contains many extensions, footnotes, and references that do not appear in this paper. Many thanks to Professor Kearney for his permission to print a version of this chapter in the Journal of Applied Hermeneutics. Keywords: touch, trauma, healing, carnal hermeneutics
Research in Phenomenology
This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the... more This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the senses. It analyses his central insight in the De Anima that tactile flesh is a “medium not an organ,” unpacking both its metaphysical and ethical implications. The essay concludes with a discussion of how contemporary phenomenology—from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray—re-describes Aristotle’s seminal intuition regarding the model of “double reversible sensation.”
William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics
It is an honor to pay homage to the work of William Desmond in this volume. I have known William ... more It is an honor to pay homage to the work of William Desmond in this volume. I have known William for almost 40 years as both friend, colleague and fellow Irish philosopher. We have had many exchanges over four decades of intellectual conversation including pieces in the William Desmond Reader and After God, not to mention numerous reviews and critical papers in learned journals and conferences on both sides of the Atlantic. In what follows I will revisit some of these past conversations as they pertain to Desmond's philosophy of religion as well as addressing some of William's most recent thinking on the subject. In doing so I will be paying particular attention to what I see as a series of critical productive paradoxes 'between' apparent opposites-divine creation and human creativity, gift and imagination, theology and philosophy, ethics and poetics, othering and selving. I offer these few reflections as a set of appreciative meditative commentaries on Desmond's poetic-metaphysical pondering of the sacred. Let me begin with some introductory remarks on Desmond's approach to the question of God. Desmond speaks of a 'companionship of religion and metaphysics' which resists the secularist framework of much contem
Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2021
After reviewing the recent publications of Richard Kearney, appearing between 2017 and 2021, incl... more After reviewing the recent publications of Richard Kearney, appearing between 2017 and 2021, including an anthology of his essential writings over his career, and covering topics such as hospitality, God, religion, anatheism, theopoetics, hermeneutics, and touch, there follows a critical engagement with Kearney's work, one that sets out in particular how, despite the very considerable overlap in our work, as fellow travelers in continental philosophy of religion and hermeneutics, our positions differ on what we mean by God and by welcoming the tout autre.
This is a review essay by Richard Kearney celebrating the recent work of John D Caputo and respon... more This is a review essay by Richard Kearney celebrating the recent work of John D Caputo and responding to the companion review essay by Caputo on Kearney's work in this issue of PSC. The author critically considers five volumes by Caputo and two recent volumes and a reader devoted to his philosophy. The essay covers most of the key issues in Caputo's later published work including ‘weak theology’, ‘deconstruction’, ‘radical hermeneutics’, ‘hauntology’ and ‘the event of the impossible’.
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