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Book SynopsisA collection of illuminating encounters with some of the most important philosophers of our age
Trade Review"Kearney's ability to enter into the thought of such a variety of figures...while at the same time critically engaging it is of the highest order and a valuable resource for anyone interested in these postmodern questions and thinkers." -Religion and the Arts
Table of ContentsPreface Part One: Recent Debates Jacques Derrida: Terror, Religion, and the New Politics Jean-Luc Marion: The Hermeneutics of Revelation Paul Ricuur: (a) On Life Stories (b) On The Crisis of Authority (c) The Power of the Possible (d) Imagination, Testimony, and Trust Georges Dumezil: Myth, Ideology, Sovereignty Part Two: From Dialogues: The Phenomenological Heritage, 1984 Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics of the Infinite Herbert Marcuse: The Philosophy of Art and Politics Paul Ricuur: (a) The Creativity of Language (b) Myth as the Bearer of Possible Worlds Stanislas Breton: Being, God, and the Poetics of Relation Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction and the Other Part Three: From States of Mind, 1995 Julia Kristeva: Strangers to Ourselves: The Hope of the Singular Hans Georg Gadamer: Text Matters Jean-Francois Lyotard: What Is Just? George Steiner: Culture-The Price You Pay Paul Ricuur: Universality and the Power of Difference Umberto Eco: Chaosmos: The Return to the Middle Ages Part Four: Colloquies with Richard Kearney Villanova Colloquy: Against Omnipotence Athens Colloquy: Between Selves and Others Halifax Colloquy: Between Being and God Stony Brook Colloquy: Confronting Imagination Boston Colloquy: Theorizing the Gift Dublin Colloquy: Thinking Is Dangerous Appendix: Philosophy as Dialogue
