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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.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
