Richard Kearney (/ˈkɑːrni/; born 1954) is an Irish philosopher and public intellectual specializing in contemporary continental philosophy.
As a public intellectual in Ireland, he was involved in drafting a number of proposals for a Northern Irish peace agreement (1983, 1993, 1995).
He has presented five series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and broadcast extensively on the European media.
[citation needed][2] He was also active in the Irish, British, and French media as a host for various television and radio programs on literary and philosophical themes.
Among Kearney's best-known written works are The Wake of the Imagination (Routledge, 1998), Poetics of Imagining (Fordham, 1998), On Stories (Routledge, 2002; translated into Dutch and Chinese), Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness (Routledge, 2003; translated into Greek and Korean), Debates in Continental Philosophy (Fordham, 2004), Modern Movements in European Philosophy (Manchester University Press, 1984), and Anatheism: Returning to God after God (Columbia, 2011; revised editions published in French and Italian).