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Traversing the imaginary : Richard Kearney and the postmodern challenge / edited by Peter Gratton and John Panteleimon Manoussakis ; foreword by Richard Kearney.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
- Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kearney, Richard.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Philosophy, European--20th century.
- Philosophy, European.
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 211 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In recent years, Richard Kearney has emerged as a leading figure in the field of continental philosophy, widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics, theory and practice of the imagination, and political thought.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The miracle of imagining / Peter Gratton and John Panteleimon Manoussakis
- Part 1. The dialogical imaginary. On stories and mourning / Paul Ricoeur
- Terror and religion / Jacques Derrida
- On social imaginaries / Charles Taylor
- Ethics of narration / Martha Nussbaum
- Intellectuals and ideology / Noam Chomsky
- Part 2. The political imaginary. Intellectual adventures in the Isles: Kearney and the Ireland peace process / Dennis Dworkin
- Reimagining Ireland, Britain, and Europe / James M. Smith
- Traumatized sovereignty / Anne O'Byrne
- Imaginings, narratives, and otherness: on diacritical hermeneutics / John Rundell
- "I tell you no lie": truth commissions and narrative / Jerry Burke
- Part 3. The narrative imaginary. Double trouble: narrative imagination as a carnival dragon / David Wood
- Heretic adventures / Terry Eagleton
- Beyond postmodernism: reflections on Richard Kearney's trilogy / Jeffrey A. Barash
- On the role of the oneiric in testimonial narrative / Eileen Rizo-Patron
- Truth, ethics, and narrative imagination: Kearney and the postmodern challenge / Mark Dooley
- Afterword: Traversals and epiphanies in Joyce and Proust / Richard Kearney.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6171-0
- OCLC:
- 314357486
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