Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney

<p>This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney’s recent work on touch excarnation and embodiment as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body.</p><p>Here fourteen scholars engage the breadth and depth of Kearney’s work to illuminate our experience of the body. The chapters collected within take up a wide variety of subjects from nature and non-human animals to our experience of the sacred and the demonic and from art’s account of touching to the political implications of various types of embodiment. Featuring also an inspired new reflection from Kearney himself in which he lays out his vision for “anacarnation” this volume is an important statement about the centrality of touch and embodiment in our experience and a reminder that despite the excarnating tendencies of contemporary life the lived body remains a touchstone for wisdom in our increasingly complicated and fragile world.</p><p>Written for scholars and students interested in touch embodiment phenomenology and hermeneutics this diverse and challenging collection contributes to a growing field of scholarship that recognizes and attempts to correct the excarnating trends in philosophy and in culture at large.</p>