- Paperback: 186 pages
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (1 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0253214890
- ISBN-13: 978-0253214898
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 1.3 cm
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"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy... and joins hands with its fundamental project, "what-or who-comes after the God of metaphysics?" --John D. Caputo
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"Kearney is one of the most exciting thinkers in the English-speaking world of continental philosophy. . . . and [he] joins hands with its fundamental project, asking the question 'what'or who'comes after the God of metaphysics?'" -John D. Caputo Engaging some of the most urgent issues in the philosophy of religion today, in this lively book Richard Kearney proposes that instead of thinking of God as 'actual,' God might best be thought of as the possibility of the impossible. By pulling away from biblical perceptions of God and breaking with dominant theological traditions, Kearney draws on the work of Ricoeur, Levinas, Derrida, Heidegger, and others to provide a surprising and original answer to who or what God might be. For Kearney, the intersecting dimensions of impossibility propel religious experience and faith in new directions, notably toward views of God that are unforeseeable, unprogrammable, and uncertain. Important themes such as the phenomenology of the persona, the meaning of the unity of God, God and desire, notions of existence and différance, and faith in philosophy are taken up in this penetrating and original work. Richard Kearney is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College and University College, Dublin. He is author of many books on modern philosophy and culture, including Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, The Wake of Imagination, and The Poetics of Modernity.
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I begin by exploring the theme of transfiguration, first in terms of a phenomenology of the persona, and then in subsequent chapters with more specific reference to defining epiphanic moments such as the burning bush (Exodus 3:15), the transfiguration narratives of Christ on Mount Thabor (Mark 9, Matthew 17, Luke 9, John 12) and the story of divine-human love in the Song of Songs. Read the first page
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I begin by exploring the theme of transfiguration, first in terms of a phenomenology of the persona, and then in subsequent chapters with more specific reference to defining epiphanic moments such as the burning bush (Exodus 3:15), the transfiguration narratives of Christ on Mount Thabor (Mark 9, Matthew 17, Luke 9, John 12) and the story of divine-human love in the Song of Songs. Read the first page
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A Very Relevant Read
16 Sep 2002
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If you are at all interested in the most up to date debates on the God question and philosophy then this book is for you. Kearney has been in constant dialogue (literally) with Marion, Derrida, Ricoeur, Kristeva and others for the past 20 years developing his special method of hermeneutics that attempts to find a middle path between the extremes of modernity and postmodernity. This book is a humble approach to the God question from a contemporary philosophical viewpoint. Although relatively technical throughout, I found it to be an exciting and stimulating read and essential for anyone who personally reflects upon the God question and wonders what the world's leading intellectuals have to say about it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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4 May 2010
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Excellent book. Kearney's text is a re-evaluation of biblical themes to find, via a poetics of possibility, new narrative identities to live by. The complexity of Kearney's thought is contextual to the larger academic discourse he emerges from, as a leading figure in the post-Heidegger controversy/return to religion movement of continental philosophy, which has its antecedents in Levinas and Ricoeur, among others. The text, however, stands on its own, and should make good reading for anyone interested in the subject matter.
9 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Relevant, yes. Useful, not quite.
12 Feb 2007
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Richard Kearney is an interesting type of scholar--having had some debates and some contact with some of the most famous scholars from the continental tradition, he seems to be in a prime position to make a useful comment on what some of these scholars might be saying. Unfortunately, Kearney is too often relating back to work he did in the past, (name dropping, both of his relations to scholars and of his own achievements, as it were) to really deal with his own work seriously. While this might be a good introduction for anyone who has no serious interest or background in philosophy, most people with any immersion in hermeneutics, deconstructionism, or any mild background in continental philosophy will find this book to be too 'popular' for their tastes.
Near the end of the book, Kearney does have a shred of depth to offer us on exactly what he could possibly want mean about 'The God Who May Be,' but unfortunately he concludes the book before it begins to say anything of interest. Read only if you like post-modern thinking at the made-for-the-masses level.
Near the end of the book, Kearney does have a shred of depth to offer us on exactly what he could possibly want mean about 'The God Who May Be,' but unfortunately he concludes the book before it begins to say anything of interest. Read only if you like post-modern thinking at the made-for-the-masses level.
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