Philosophy Department Faculty

Richard Kearney

The Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy

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Richard Kearney

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North Room 225

Telephone: 617-552-3862

Email: richard.kearney@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Paris X

Courses

Narrative Imagination

Carnal Hermeneutics

Phenomenology of Eros

Hermeneutics of Religion

Research Interests

Hermeneutics

Phenomenology

Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion

Aesthetics

 

Related Links

www.guestbookproject.org

www.twinsomeminds.org

www.facebook.com/richard.kearney.1069

https://www.facebook.com/kearneyr

https://bc.academia.edu/RichardKearney

Personal Website Curriculum Vitae

Department

Philosophy

Biography

Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne), the Australian Catholic University and the University of Nice.

He is the author of over 24 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 21 more.

He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin.

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 has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and broadcast extensively on the European media.

He is currently the international director of the Guestbook Project--Hosting the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality.

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