States of Mind presents a series of dialogues with twenty-two of
the world's leading political, philosophical, and literary
thinkers. Over the past decade, Richard Kearney has interviewed a
range of notable figures, including Julia Kristeva, Jacques
Derrida, George Steiner, Charles Taylor, Herbert Marcuse, Seamus
Heaney, Jorge Luis Borges, Noam Chomsky, Miroslav Holub,
Jean-Franois Lyotard, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Umberto Eco, Neal
Ascherson, Emmanuel Levinas, Marina Warner, Paul Ricoeur, Edward
Said, Stanilas Breton, Martha Nussbaum, and Vaclav Havel. Each of
these critics has helped to shape the most pressing debates of the
century in areas such as ethics, art, language, psychology national
and international identity, and religion.
This searching and lively exchange of ideas, reflecting a
multitude of provocative and exciting visions, acts as an
introduction to the work of each thinker. The volume addresses
issues on a global scale and makes some of the most pioneering and
influential thinkers of our time available for the first time to a
general readership.
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