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On Translation (Hardcover)
Paul Ricoeur; Translated by Eileen Brennan; Foreword by Richard Kearney (Series Editor)
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Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the
twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a
topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why
is it so important? Reminding us that The Bible, the Koran, the
Torah and the works of the great philosophers are often only ever
read in translation, Ricoeur reminds us that translation not only
spreads knowledge but can change its very meaning. In spite of
these risk, he argues that in a climate of ethnic and religious
conflict, the art and ethics of translation are invaluable. Drawing
on interesting examples such as the translation of early Greek
philosophy during the Renaissance, the poetry of Paul Celan and the
work of Hannah Arendt, he reflects not only on the challenges of
translating one language into another but how one community speaks
to another. Throughout, Ricoeur shows how to move through life is
to navigate a world that requires translation itself. Paul Ricoeur
died in 2005. He was one of the great contemporary French
philosophers and a leading figure in hermeneutics, psychoanalytic
thought, literary theory and religion.
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 skilfully 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. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, gods and monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them.
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On Translation (Paperback, New ed)
Paul Ricoeur; Translated by Eileen Brennan; Foreword by Richard Kearney (Series Editor)
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Paul Ricoeur is described in the "Routledge Encyclopedia of
Philosophy "as "one of the leading French philosophers of the
second half of the twentieth century." This little book collects
his thoughts on the subject of translation, and is vintage Ricoeur.
He uses the topic to reflect on some of the perennial problems
posed by translation, including the transmission of early Greek
philosophy to the Renaissance, interpretations of the Bible amongst
diverse religious traditions (no small issue at the moment), and
the way translations of the same text reflect important cultural
dynamics at work across different periods, leading to quite
different meanings springing from the same book. There are also
discussions of some contemporary figures, such as Umberto Eco, and
the whole underscored by Ricoeur's point that there is a paradox at
the hear of translation: impossible in theory but effective in
practice.
'To thine own self be true.' From Polonius's words in Hamlet right
up to Oprah, we are constantly urged to look within. Why is being
authentic the ultimate aim in life for so many people, and why does
it mean looking inside rather than out? Is it about finding the
'real' me, or something greater than me, even God? And should we
welcome what we find?
Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range of references, On
Being Authentic is a gripping journey into the self that begins
with Socrates and Augustine. Charles Guignon asks why being
authentic ceased to mean being part of some bigger, cosmic picture
and with Rousseau, Wordsworth and the Romantic movement, took the
strong inward turn alive in today's self-help culture.
He also plumbs the darker depths of authenticity, with the help of
Freud, Joseph Conrad and Alice Miller and reflects on the future of
being authentic in a postmodern, global age. He argues ultimately
that if we are to rescue the ideal of being authentic, we have to
see ourselves as fundamentally social creatures, embedded in
relationships and communities, and that being authentic is not
about what is owed to me but how I depend on others.
Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most
important and challenging philosophical movements. This major
volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and
schools, including phenomenology, existentialism and postmodernism.
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
argues that touch is our most primordial sense, foundational to our
individual and common selves. Kearney explores the role of touch,
from ancient wisdom traditions to modern therapies. He demonstrates
that a fundamental aspect of touch is interdependence, its
inherently reciprocal nature, which offers a crucial corrective to
our fixation with control. Making the case for the complementarity
of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover
a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others.
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 his hermeneutic philosophy. Part one
explores some of the main themes in Ricouer's thought under six
headings: phenomenology and hermeneutics; language and imagination;
myth and tradition; ideology and utopia; evil and alterity; poetics
and ethics. The second part comprises five dialogical exchanges
which Kearney has conducted with Ricoeur over the last three
decades (1977-2003), charting and explaining his intellectual
itinerary. This book is aimed at a broad student readership as well
as the general intelligent reader interested in knowing more about
one of the most enduring major figures in contemporary continental
philosophy.
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Vertellingen (Paperback)
Ruud Van Der Plassche; Richard Kearney
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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 in een heldere en meeslepende stijl waarom verhalen deze
uitwerking op ons hebben en betoogt dat het onvertelde leven niet
waard is om geleefd te worden. Vertellingen is onmisbaar, voor
iedereen die helder wil nadenken over de rol van verhalen in ons
leven en onze cultuur.
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 single volume the classic,
enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of
public sector performance, as written in the words of leading
practitioners and scholars. Taken as a whole, this volume provides
a performance compass for today's public managers, helping them to
reconstruct the public's confidence in, and support of,
government.Defined here as managing public organizations for
outcomes, performance is examined in all its varied dimensions:
organizing work, managing workers, measuring performance, and
overcoming resistance to performance-enhancing innovations. The
selected articles are interesting, thought provoking, and
instructive. They are classics in that they have been widely cited
in the scholarly literature and have enduring value to public
managers who seek to understand the many dimensions of performance.
The book is organized into three sections: Performance Foundations,
Performance Strategies, and Performance Measurement. Excerpts from
additional selected articles feature special topics and wisdom from
performance experts.
Contents: Contents, Introduction, Part I: Hermenuetics Part II: Deconstruction Part III: Critical Theory Part IV: Psychoanalysis PartV: Applications.
Challenges to received ideas of the nation-state and sovereignty are forcing us to `rethink' Ireland. The issue of sovereignty, which has bedevilled Irish-British relations, is trapped between the competing forces of globalisation and demands for greater regional democracy. Richard Kearney proposes the overcoming of this `sovereignty neurosis', requiring not only a recasting of the political identity of Ireland, but also a re-imagining of the cultural, literary and philosophical heritage. Only then can the inherited political notions of nationalism, national identity and republicanism be unravelled. eBook available with sample pages: 0203429001
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Vertellingen (Hardcover)
Ruud Van Der Plassche; Richard Kearney
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R5,480
Discovery Miles 54 800
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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 in een heldere en meeslepende stijl waarom verhalen deze
uitwerking op ons hebben en betoogt dat het onvertelde leven niet
waard is om geleefd te worden.Vertellingen is onmisbaar, voor
iedereen die helder wil nadenken over de rol van verhalen in ons
leven en onze cultuur.
Challenges to received ideas of the nation-state and sovereignty are forcing us to `rethink' Ireland. The issue of sovereignty, which has bedevilled Irish-British relations, is trapped between the competing forces of globalization and demands for greater regional democracy. Richard Kearney proposes the overcoming of this `sovereignty neurosis', requiring not only a recasting of the political identity of Ireland, but also a re-imagining of the cultural, literary and philosophical heritage. Only then can the inherited political notions of nationalism, national identity and republicanism be unravelled.
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 skilfully 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. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how Strangers, Gods and Monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them.
"The Continental Philosophy Reader" is the first comprehensive
anthology of key writings from the major figures in European
thought. The anthology is organised in three sections which map out
the broad territory covered in "The Continental Philosophy Reader:
" from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics, from Marxism to Critical
Theory and from Structualism to Deconstruction. Within each section
classic thinkers and writings of these movements are presented. The
selections have been carefully chosen to be representative of the
thinkers, and each piece of writing is introduced and placed in
their historical and philosophical context by the editors. There is
also a helpful chronology that allows the tradition to be seen in
light of twentieth century thought and culture.
The thinkers and writing covered in "The Continental" "Philosophy
Reader" include: Husserl on Phenomenology, Heidegger from "Being
and Time," Jaspers from the "Philosophy of Existence," Sartre on
Existentialism, Merleau-Ponty from "Phenomenology of Perception,"
de Beauvoir from "The Second Sex," Gadamer on Hermenuetics, Levinas
on Ethics, Ricoeur on Interpretation, Luxemborg on Marxism, Lukacs
from "History and Class Consciousness," Gramsci on Intellectuals,
Adorno & Horkhiemer from the "Dialectic of the Enlightenment,"
Benjamin on History, Marcuse from "Eros and Civilisation," Habermas
on Philosophy, Althusser from "Reading Marx," Arendt from "Between
Past and Future," de Saussure on Signs, Levi-Strauss on Myth, Lacan
on the Mirror Stage, Foucault on Power, Barthes on Semiology,
Kristeva on Women's Time, Deleuze on Philosophy, Irigaray on the
Feminine, Lyotard on the Postmodern
Contents: 1. The beginnings of phenomenology: Husserl and his predecessors Richard Cobb-Stevens, Boston College 2. Philosophy of existence 1: Heidegger Jacques Taminiaux, University of Louvain, Belgium 3. Philosophy of existence 2: Sartre Thomas Flynn, Emory University 4. Philosophy of existence 3: Merleau-Ponty Bernard Cullen, Queen's University, Belfast 5. Philosophies of religion: Jaspers, Marcel, Levinas William Desmond, Loyola College 6. Philosophies of science: Mach, Duhem, Bachelard Babette Babich, Fordham University 7. Philosophies of Marxism: Gramsci, Lukacs, Benjamin, Althusser Michael Kelly, University of Southampton 8. Critical theory: from Adorno to Habermas David Rasmussen, Boston College 9. Hermeneutics: Gadamer, Ricoeur Gary Madison, McMaster University 10. Italian idealism and after: Croce, Gentile, Vattimo Giacomo Rinaldi, University of Urbino, Italy 11. French structuralism and after: Barthes, Lacan, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault Hugh Silverman, State University of New York at Stony Brook 12. French feminism and after: de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, Cixious Alison Ainley, Oxford Brookes University 13. Deconstruction Simon Critchley, Essex University 14. Derrida Timothy Mooney, Essex University 15. Postmodernist theory: Lyotard, Baudrillard Thomas Docherty, Trinity College, Dublin
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.
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, dogmas, and demands for certainty and security
that push us toward hostility, we also desire to wager with the
unknown, leap into the unanticipated, and celebrate the new, a
desire this book seeks to recognize and cultivate. The book
contends that hospitality means chancing one's hand, one's arm,
one's very self, thereby opening a vital space for new voices to be
heard, shedding old skins, and welcoming new understandings.
Radical Hospitality engages with urgent moral conversations
concerning identity, nationality, immigration, commemoration, and
justice, moving between theory and praxis and on to the formative
life of the classroom. Building on key critical debates on the
question of hospitality ranging from phenomenology, hermeneutics
and deconstruction to neo-Kantian moral critique and Anglo-American
virtue ethics, the book explores novel possibilities for an ethics
of hospitality in our contemporary world of border anxiety, refugee
crises, and ecological catastrophe.
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 Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories not only entertain us but can determine our lives and personal identities. He also considers nations as stories, including the story of Romulus and Remus in the founding of Rome. Throughout, On Stories stresses that, far from heralding the demise of narrative, the digital era merely opens up new stories.
Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the
distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has
done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley
Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s
did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched
throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film
do the work of philosophy? Following Cavell's lead to think along
the tear of the analytic-continental traditions, this book draws
from both sides of the philosophical divide to reflect on this
question. Spanning generations and disciplines, pondering
everything from art house classics to mainstream blockbusters,
Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies aims to fling open the
doors to this conversation on all sides. Inquiring into both
philosophy's word on film and film's word to philosophy, the
interdisciplinary dialogue of this book traverses the conceptual
and the particular as it considers how film catalyzes our thinking
and sets us talking. After viewing the world through film, we find
our world--and ourselves--transformed by deeper understanding and
new possibilities. This book aims to provide a novel and engaging
way in to thinking with and about this enduringly popular art form.
Drawing on the work of James Joyce, the story of Sigmund Freud's 'Dora' and the case of Oscar Schindler, Richard Kearney skilfully illuminates how stories are deep at work in fictional writing, autobiography and psychoanalysis and above all, in attempts to talk of the "self". Throughout the text stresses that far from heralding the demise of the story, the digital and supposedly 'postmodern' era opens up powerful new ways of thinking about narrative. Imaginative and wide-ranging, On Stories is essential reading for anyone who wants to think clearly about the role of stories in our future.
How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of
double remembrance which honor both sides of the story-- spoken and
unspoken, acknowledged and forgotten? One hundred years after the
Easter Rising, Twinsome Minds explores the complexities of
commemoration against the backdrops of the famine and 1916. Using
word and image artist Sheila Gallagher and philosopher Richard
Kearney retrieve some neglected micro-narratives of Irish
historical trauma to illustrate how memory occurs at the cross
section of story and history. In an inventive combination of
archival imagery, historical records and narrative imagination,
they mine the past for potential futures in a process of healing
and recovery. Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac
University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students,
scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many
aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst
demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays
are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in
Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history,
art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political
economy, literature and music.
What is Imagination? What is the relationship between aesthetics
and ethics in a contemporary civilization dominated by the image?
How can we reconcile the right to imagine with the right to
justice? Are the claims of artistic creativity and moral
responsibility compatible? With an extended foreword and an
afterword chapter, and fascinating new material on the narrative
imagination, Poetics of Imagining: Modern to Post-modern provides a
critically developed and accessible account of the major theories
of imagination in modern European thought. It analyses and assesses
the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the
imaginary life by phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty,
Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur), and post-modernism
(Vattima, Kristeva, Lyotard). Richard Kearney achieves this with a
coherent and committed approach, which displays his own passionate
concern for the claims of imagination in our post-modern world of
fragmentation and fracture. This is essential reading for those
interested in current leading debates on the role of imagining in
continental philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, art theory and
literary criticism.
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 Movemen
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