Carnal Hermeneutics

Richard Kearney is the Charles Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of over 20 books, among them the trilogy The God Who May Be (Indiana University Press, 2001), On Stories (Routledge, 2002), and Strangers, Gods, and Monsters (Routledge, 2003), as well as works including Debates in Continental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2004), and Anatheism (Columbia, 2011). In 2008 he launched the Guestbook Project, an ongoing artistic, academic, and multi-media experiment in hospitality. Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an “earthy” hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: From Head to Foot Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor Why Carnal Hermeneutics? What Is Carnal Hermeneutics? Richard Kearney Mind the Gap: The Challenge of Matter Brian Treanor Rethinking the Flesh Rethinking Corpus Jean-Luc Nancy From the Limbs of the Heart to the Soul's Organs Jean-Louis Chretien A Tragedy and a Dream: Disability Revisited Julia Kristeva Incarnation and the Problem of Touch Michel Henry On the Phenomenon of Suffering Jean-Luc Marion Memory, History, Oblivion Paul Ricoeur Matters of Touch Skin Deep: Bodies Edging into Place Ed Casey Touched by Touching David Wood Umbilicus: Toward a Hermeneutics of Generational Difference Anne O'Byrne Getting in Touch: Aristotelian Diagnostics Emmanuel Alloa Between Vision and Touch: From Husserl to Merleau-Ponty Dermot Moran Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life Ted Toadvine Divine Bodies The Passion According to Teresa of Avila Julia Kristeva