Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney

Author:   Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University in California, USA) ,  James L. Taylor (European Center for the Study of War and Peace, Croatia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032259215


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   26 October 2022
Format:   Hardback
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This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney’s recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body. Here, fourteen scholars engage the breadth and depth of Kearney’s work to illuminate our experience of the body. The chapters collected within take up a wide variety of subjects, from nature and non-human animals to our experience of the sacred and the demonic, and from art’s account of touching to the political implications of various types of embodiment. Featuring also an inspired new reflection from Kearney himself, in which he lays out his vision for “anacarnation,” this volume is an important statement about the centrality of touch and embodiment in our experience, and a reminder that, despite the excarnating tendencies of contemporary life, the lived body remains a touchstone for wisdom in our increasingly complicated and fragile world. Written for scholars and students interested in touch, embodiment, phenomenology, and hermeneutics, this diverse and challenging collection contributes to a growing field of scholarship that recognizes and attempts to correct the excarnating trends in philosophy and in culture at large.

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Author:   Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University in California, USA) ,  James L. Taylor (European Center for the Study of War and Peace, Croatia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.671kg
ISBN:  

9781032259215


ISBN 10:   1032259213
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   26 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Re-touching Philosophy with Richard Kearney Part I: Touching Nature 2. Thinking Like a Jaguar: Carnal Hermeneutics, Touch, and the Limits of Language 3. Sensing the Call of Other Animals: Carnal Hermeneutics and the Ethico-Moral Imagination 4. The Embodied Human Being in Touch with the World: Richard Kearney and Hedwig Conrad-Martius in Conversation Part II: Touching the Sacred 5. Carnal Sacrality: Phenomenology, the Sacred, and Material Bodies in Richard Kearney 6. Deep Calls to Deep 7. Strangers, Gods, and Demons: Toward a Carnal Hermeneutics of the Demonic Part III: Touching Imagination 8. Earth Creatures: Anacarnation in an Excarnate Age 9. Richard Kearney, Terrence Malick, and the Hidden Life of Sense 10. Kearney's Journey between Imagination and Touch - in Dialogue with Ricœur Part IV: Touching Flesh 11. Anaskesis: Retrieving Flesh in an Age of Excarnation 12. Female Nakedness in Protest: Tactile Reading 13. Touch Thyself: Kearney's Anacarnational Return to Plato's Forgotten Wisdom 14. No Longer a Spectator Only Part V: Finishing Touches 15. Anacarnation: Recovering Embodied Life

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"""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"


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


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


Author Information

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.

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