Traversing the Imaginary: Richard Kearney and the Postmodern Challenge

Richard Kearney is widely recognized for his work in the areas of philosophical and religious hermeneutics, theory and practice of the imagination, and political thought. This study reflects the range and impact of Kearney's extensive contributions to contemporary philosophy.

Richard Kearney; Prelude: Traversing the Imaginary; THE DIALOGICAL IMAGINARY; 1. Paul Ricoeur; On Stories and Mourning; 2. Jacques Derrida; Terror and Religion; 3. Charles Taylor; On Social Imaginaries; 4. Martha Nussbaum; Ethics of Narration; 5. Noam Chomsky; Intellectuals and Ideology; THE POLITICAL IMAGINARY; 6. Dennis Dworkin; Intellectual Adventures in the Isles; 7. John Rundell; Imaginings, Narratives, and Otherness: On Diacritical Hermeneutics; 8. Anne O'Bryne; Traumatized Sovereignty; 9. James M. Smith; Re-Imagining Ireland, Britain, and Europe; 10. Jerry Burke; "I Tell You No Lie": Truth Commissions and Narrative; THE NARRATIVE IMAGINARY; 11. David Wood; Double Trouble: Narrative Imagination as Carnival Dragon; 12. Jeffrey A. Barash; Beyond Postmodernism; 13. Terry Eagleton; Heretic Adventures; 14. E. Rizo-Patron; Garcia Marquez and Richard Kearney on the Role of the Oneiric in Testimonial Narrative; 15. Mark Dooley; Truth, Ethics, and Narrative Imagination: The Postmodern Challenge; Richard Kearney; Postlude: Traversals and Epiphanies in Joyce and Proust.