Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and is a visiting Professor at the University of Dublin and the European University Institute at Florence. He is the author of over twenty books on philosophy and culture and editor of a further fifteen. His major philosophical works include The Wake Of Imagination, Poetics Of Imagining, On Stories, and Strangers, Gods And Monsters. He has also published two novels and a volume of poetry. Richard Kearney is also a well known public intellectual and commentator in Britain and Ireland, where he has served on the national Arts Council, the Higher Education Authority and the Irish Film School (which he chaired). In addition he has hosted his own book program on television and radio and has served as speechwriter to the Irish President Mary Robinson. Link to Paper Abstract; Link to Homepage

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