Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney

Introduction: Re-touching Philosophy with Richard Kearney

Brian Treanor and James L. Taylor

Part I: Touching Nature

1. Thinking Like a Jaguar: Carnal Hermeneutics, Touch, and the Limits of Language

Brian Treanor

2. Sensing the Call of Other Animals: Carnal Hermeneutics and the Ethico-Moral Imagination

Melissa Fitzpatrick

3. The Embodied Human Being in Touch with the World: Richard Kearney, and Hedwig Conrad-Martius in Conversation

Christina M. Gschwandtner

Part II: Touching the Sacred

4. Carnal Sacrality: Phenomenology, the Sacred, and Material Bodies in Richard Kearney

Neal DeRoo

5. Deep Calls to Deep

Daniel O'Dea Bradley

6. Strangers, Gods, and Demons: Toward a Carnal Hermeneutics of the Demonic

Brian Gregor

Part III: Touching Imagination

7. Earth Creatures: Anacarnation in an Excarnate Age

M.E. Littlejohn

8. Richard Kearney, Terrence Malick, and the Hidden Life of Sense

Christopher Yates

9. Kearney's Journey between Imagination or Touch—in Dialogue with Ricœur

Eileen Brennan

Part IV: Touching Flesh

10. Anaskesis: Retrieving Flesh in an Age of Excarnation

James L. Taylor

11. Female Nakedness in Protest: Tactile Reading

Sarit Larry

12. Touch Thyself: Kearney's Anacarnational Return to Plato's Forgotten Wisdom

Matthew Clemente

13. No Longer a Spectator Only

Tamsin Jones

Part V: Finishing Touches

14. Anacarnation: Recovering Embodied Life

Richard Kearney

Biography

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Charles S. Casassa SJ Chair at Loyola Marymount University in California, USA.

James L. Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and Peacemaking and Director of International Programs at the European Center for the Study of War and Peace.

"In the course of years of writing on imagination, hospitality, and touch, Richard Kearney has shown, in ways both philosophical and poetic, what it is to meet the world in a spirit of open-handed generosity. In this beautiful collection, we see a group of thinkers meeting strangers and horses, gods and trees; they encounter the living and the dead in the written word and the moving image, on the seashore and in the digital classroom, in the history of philosophy and in life lived in the flesh, all in that open spirit that reaches for empathy without presuming understanding. Thinking across generations and in the midst of many orders of being, they show us all over again that the world is not just before our eyes but at our fingertips. If we are paying attention, the extraordinary shines through the ordinary. This is an exercise in thinking together. Be warned; you will find yourself thinking with these writers long after you have closed the book."

Anne O'Byrne, Philosophy, Stony Brook University, USA

"If too many philosophers have colluded with a civilization out of touch with the lives, the bodies, the earth that make it up—this collection manifests an enlivening transdisciplinary alternative. Inspired by Richard Kearney’s body of work—in its adventures in embodiment, its refusal of the culture of discarnation, its revelatory 'anacarnation' and its oh-so-needed ecology—this conversation brilliantly unfolds the flesh of a radically hospitable hermeneutics."

Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, The Theological School, USA