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  • Touch

    Recovering Our Most Vital Sense

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series No Limits
    Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How can we come back to our senses?Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. He ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • On Stories

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Stories offer us some of the richest and most enduring insights into the human condition and have preoccupied philosophy since Aristotle. On Stories presents in clear and compelling style just why narrative has this power over us and argues that the unnarrated life is not worth living. Drawing on the work of James Joyce, Sigmund Freud's patient 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Anatheism

    Returning to God After God

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between theism and atheism, we now have the opportunity to respond in deeper, freer ways to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Radical Hospitality

    From Thought to Action

    by Richard Kearney, Melissa Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger.Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening oneself in narrative exchange to someone or something other than ourselves—by crossing borders, whether literal or figurative. Against the fears, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Routledge History of Philosophy Volume VIII

    Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Routledge History of Philosophy
    Continental philosophy, as it has emerged in the twentieth century, is less a seamless fabric than a patchquilt of diverse strands. Phenomenology, hermeneutics, existentialism, structuralism, critical theory, deconstruction - these are some of the salient movements which have developed in continental Europe between 1900 and the 1990's, though their influence is by no means confined to geographic ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Wake of Imagination

    by Richard Kearney ...
    With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Salvage

    by Richard Kearney ...
    It's 1939 and young Maeve O'Sullivan and her family are among the last inhabitants of a windswept island off the south coast of Ireland. After her father's death, Maeve finds herself the last inheritor of the old ways of healing. But the future beckons to Maeve with the arrival of Seamus, a handsome young medical student heading for Dublin. Maeve suddenly finds herself at a crossroads, torn ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Strangers, Gods and Monsters

    Interpreting Otherness

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skil lfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters.In the ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Vertellingen

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Translated by Ruud van der Plassche ...
    Series series Routledge filosofie
    Verhalen bieden ons bijzonder veelzijdige en duurzame inzichten in de menselijke conditie en hebben al sinds Aristoteles de aandacht van de filosofie getrokken. Het leidmotief van Vertellingen is dat dit digitale en naar verluidt 'postmoderne' tijdperk niet de ondergang van het verhaal aankondigt, maar juist zelf een bron van nieuwe verhalen vormt. Richard Kearney, filosoof en schrijver, ontrafelt ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • On Paul Ricoeur

    The Owl of Minerva

    by Richard Kearney ...
    Series series Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology
    Paul Ricoeur is one of the giants of contemporary continental philosophy and one of the most enduring and wide-ranging thinkers in the twentieth century, publishing major works ranging from existentialism and phenomenology to psychoanalysis, politics, religion and the theory of language. Richard Kearney offers a critical engagement with the work of Ricoeur, beginning with a general introduction to ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Postnationalist Ireland

    Politics, Culture, Philosophy

    by Richard Kearney ...
    The encroachment of globalization and demands for greater regional autonomy have had a profound effect on the way we picture Ireland. This challenging new look at the key of sovereignty asks us how we should think about the identity of a postnationalist' Ireland. Richard Kearney goes to the heart of the conflict over demand for communal identity - traditionally expressed by nationalism, and the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Public Sector Performance

    Management, Motivation, And Measurement

    by Richard Kearney, Evan Berman ...
    Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance. Their quest is not new, rather, the concern with improving the performance of government organizations has existed since the Scientific Management Movement. Public Sector Performance brings together in a ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD