Richard Kearney

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Richard Kearney is the Charles Seelig professor of philosophy at Boston College and has taught, at many universities including University College Dublin, the Sorbonne, and the University of Nice.

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Bibliography
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Biography

He studied at Glenstal Abbey under the Benedictines until 1972, and was a 1st Class Honours graduate in Philosophy in the Bachelor of Arts graduate class of 1975 in UCD. He was also known on campus as a brilliant intellectual who launched the "Crane Bag" journal with fellow students including Andy Sleeman (now Fr. Simon Sleeman, OSB in Glenstal), Christina Nulty, Ronan Sheehan, and Aidan Matthews. He completed an M.A. at McGill University with Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, and a PhD with Paul Ricoeur at University of Paris X: Nanterre. He corresponded with Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida and the like. He also made some documentary films, and briefly had his own programmes on Irish and British TV. Kearney also traveled the world with U2's Bono, and is personally acquainted with Academy Award winners Martin Scorcese and Gregory Peck, among others.

[edit] Works

He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 15 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) and in speechwriting for the Irish President, Mary Robinson. He has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and/or British television and broadcast extensively on the European media. His most recent work in philosophy comprises a trilogy entitled 'Philosophy at the Limit'. The three volumes are On Stories (Routledge, 2002), The God Who May Be (Indiana UP, 2001) and Strangers, Gods, and Monsters (Routledge, 2003).