Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney: Perspectives from South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney: Perspectives from South Africa write by Daniël P. Veldsman. This book was released on 2018-12-31. Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney: Perspectives from South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Kearney is one of the leading global thinkers in both Continental philosophy and post-metaphysical philosophy of religion, as well as an esteemed Irish professor in philosophy, currently teaching at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA. Professor Kearney first visited South Africa in May as joint visiting academic of the Universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria and North-West. The visit prompted the publication of this scholarly collected work, authored by South African and international scholars. These specialists in philosophy and religious studies analysed Kearney’s influential work and brought his scholarly perspectives into dialogue with other leading thinkers in the field, both from Africa and abroad. This publication will be the first collective attempt to engage his work from the perspective of the African continent. This collected work contributes significantly in an interdisciplinary way to Ricoeurdian studies. The target audience of the book is peers and specialists in the field of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion.
Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney
Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney write by . This book was released on 2018. Debating Otherness with Richard Kearney available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Anatheism
Anatheism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anatheism write by Richard Kearney. This book was released on 2010. Anatheism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Has the death of 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? This book explores this question and argues how by accepting that we know nothing about God, we can rediscover an absent holiness in our lives and reclaim an everyday divinity.
Strangers, Gods and Monsters
Strangers, Gods and Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers, Gods and Monsters write by Richard Kearney. This book was released on 2005-06-29. Strangers, Gods and Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strangers, Gods and Monsters 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 skil lfully 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. In the first part of the book, he shows how the figure of stranger - the "barbarian" for ancient Greece, the 'savage' for imperial Europe - defines our own identity by the very idea that it is the Other, not we, who is unknown. He then goes on to examine the image of the monster, and with the aid of powerful examples from ancient Minotaurs to medieval demons and post-modern enemies, argues that human selfhood itself frequently contains a monstrous element. In the final part of the book Richard Kearney shows how many gods are still alive for people today testifying to the human psyche's yearning to slip the shackles of our finitude and death. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, gods and monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them.
Carnal Hermeneutics
Carnal Hermeneutics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carnal Hermeneutics write by Richard Kearney. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Carnal Hermeneutics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Because interpretation truly goes “all the way down,” carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body. In this volume, an impressive array of today’s preeminent philosophers seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.
