Richard Kearney
Richard M. Kearney | |
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| Born | 1954 (age 71–72) Cork, Ireland |
| Spouse | Anne Bernard |
| Awards | Election to the Royal Irish Academy (1998) |
| Education | |
| Education | University College Dublin (BA) McGill University (MA) Paris Nanterre University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Ricoeur |
| Other advisor | Charles Taylor |
| Philosophical work | |
| School | Continental philosophy, hermeneutics, phenomenology |
| Institutions | Boston College |
| Main interests | hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, aesthetics |
| Notable works | The Wake of the Imagination (1998), Poetics of Imagining (1998), On Stories (2001), Debates in Continental Philosophy (2004), Anatheism (2011) |
| Notable ideas | Diacritical hermeneutics, Carnal hermeneutics, 'Anatheism' |
| Website | richardmkearney |
Richard M. Kearney (/ˈkɑːrni/; born 1954) is an Irish philosopher specializing in contemporary continental philosophy. He is the Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy at Boston College and has taught at University College Dublin, the Sorbonne, the University of Nice, and the Australian Catholic University. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995). He is currently international director of the Guestbook Project.