UCD School of Philosophy

MA (McGill), PhD (Paris)
Associate Professor

Email: kearneyr@bc.edu

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• Philosophy of Art and Imagination, particularly through a hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective.

Education:
Ph.D. University of Paris X (1980)
M.A. McGill University, Montreal (1977)
B.A. University College Dublin (1976)

• 1990 Chair of Philosophy and Rotating Head of Department, UCD
• 1988-present Visiting European Professor, Boston College
  1981-present Lecturer, UCD
• Co-director of the International Conference of Philosophy at Cerisy, France (1988, 1990)
• Member of the Arts Council of Ireland (1988-93)
• Member of the Higher Education Authority of Ireland(1990-1992)
• Chair and acting Head of the Irish Film School at UCD, in conjunction with New York University (1992- )
• Chair of the Irish Film Centre Board (1990-1993)
• Erasmus Exchange Professor to the Universities of Louvain, Paris, Lisbon (1994- )
• Visiting lecturer at the following Universities: Harvard, Yale, McGill, Toronto, Edmundton, Cleveland, UCLA, Loyola-Baltimore, Connecticut State, Amherst, Boston University, U Mass, NYU, SUNY at Stoneybrook, New School NY, Tampa, Rome, Naples, Camaldoli, Perugia (Collegium Phaenomenologicum), Turin, Leuven, Louvainla-neuve, St Louis-Brussels, Paris (I, IV, X), Lyons, Lille, Nice, Halle-Wuttenberg, Munich, Moscow, Charles-Prague, Bergen, Edinburgh, Glascow, Strathelyde, Goldsmith-London, Kings College-Oxford, Lancaster, Manchester, Warwick, Essex, Zurich.
• Extern examiner for graduate theses at the following universities, Warwick, Essex, Queens (Belfast), McGill (Montreal), Hong Kong and Paris (X).

• Poétique du Possible (Beauchesne, Paris, 1984)
• Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers (Manchester University Press, 1984)
• Myth and Motherland (Hutchinson, London, 1984)
• Modern Movements in European Philosophy (Manchester University Press, 1987)
• Transitions. Narratives in Modern Irish Culture (Manchester University Press, 1988; Wolfhound, Dublin, 1988)
• The Wake of Imagation, (Hutchinson, London; University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
• Poetics of Imagining, (Harper & Collins, New York, 1991)
• Angel of Patrick's Hill (Raven Arts Press, Dublin, 1991)
• Visions of Europe (Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 1993)
• Poetics of Modernity (Humanities Press, New York, 1995)
• States of Mind (University of New York Press, 1995)
• Sam's Fall (Hodder, London, 1995)
• Postnationalist Ireland (Routledge, London, 1996)

• Heidegger et la Question de Dieu (Grasset, Paris, 1980)
• The Black Book: On Third Level Education (Denarn Press, Dublin, 1977)
• The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions (Manchester University Press; St. Martin's Press, New York, 1984)
• The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, Volume 1 (Blackwater Press, Dublin, 1981)
• The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies, Volume 2 (Colin Smythe, London, 1986)
• Across the Frontiers: Ireland in the 1990s (Wolfhound Press, 1988)
• Migrations: The Irish at Home and Abroad (Wolfhound Press, Dublin. 1990)
• Les Métamorphoses de la Raison Herméneutique (Ed. du Seuil, Paris, 1993)
• Continental Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, London, 1994)
• Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics of Action (Sage, London & New York, 1995)
• The Continental Philosophy Reader (Routledge, London, 1995)

• The Crane Bag Journal of Irish Studies (1977-1985)
• The Irish Review (1988-1991)
• The Irish Literary Supplement (1986-1988)

• Esprit (Paris, 1978-1982)
• International Philosophical Studies (London, Dublin, 1994- )
• Philosophy and Social Criticism (Boston, London, 1993- )

• Philosophy and Social Criticism (Boston/London, 1991, 1993 and 1995)
• Autrement (Paris, 1991)
• Kulturtekster (Bergen,Norway, 1995)
• No Word Image (Dublin, 1993)
• Irish Literary Studies: Ireland and France (London, 1993)
• Irish Literature and Culture (London, 1992)
• Études Irlandaises(Lille-Paris, 1985)
• At the Heart of the Real (Dublin, 1992)
• International Journal of Philosophical Studies (DublinLondon, 1994)
• The Irish Review (Belfast-Cork, 1986, 1988, 1994)
• Contemporary French Philosophy: Royal Institute of Philosphy Series (London, 1987)
• Irish Philosophical Journal (Belfast, 1985)
• Irish Theological Quarterly (Maynooth, 1986)
• Philosophical Studies (Dublin-Maynooth, 1980)
• Letters from the New Island (Dublin-London, 1991)
• Philosophy Now (Ipswich, 1995)
• Svetova Literatura (Prague, 1995)
• Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea (New York, 1987)
• Studies (Dublin , 1987)
• Esprit (Paris, 1979)
• Kierkegaardiana (Copenhagen, 1984)
• New Perspectives Quarterly (Los Angeles, 1992)
• Anglistik und Englischunterricht (Heidelberg, 1994)
• Reconciling Memories (Dublin, 19 )
• James Joyce Quarterly (Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1991)
• New Observations (New York, 1989)
• From Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis (New York, 1995)
• History of European Ideas (London, 1993)
• Warwick Philosophy and Literature Series (Warwick, 1993)
• Phenomenology and Religion (Albany, NY, 1990)
• On Paul Ricoeur: Narrative and Interpretation (London, 1992)
• Philosophie, Phénoménologie, Politique: Jan Patocka (Grenoble, 1994)
• Violence et Vérité (Paris, 1985)
• Working Through Derrida (Evanston, 1993)
• Lettre International (Paris-Madrid-Berlin, 1989)
• A Citizen's Inquiry (Belfast-Dublin, 1992)
• Mythe et Terreur (Paris, 1983)
• Reflection and Imagination (Toronto-Buffalo, 1991)
• The Narrative Path (MIT-Cambridge, 1989)
• Oblique (Paris, 1984)
• Philosophy Today (Oxford, 1982)
• Eidos (Ottowa, 1987)
• Philosophie: Sur Ricoeur (Paris, 1995)
• Georgetown Quarterly Journal (Washington, 1994)
• Modern Fiction Studies (Los Angeles, 1992)
• Le Monde Entier (Paris, 1993)
• Die Hören: Zeitschrift für Literature, Kunst und Kritik (Hannover, 1988)
• Keltisches Bewußtsein (Munich, 1985)
• The Massachussetts Review (Boston, 1987)
• Contemporary Irish Poetry (London, 1992)
• Cahiers de l'École des Sciences Philosophiques et Religieuses (Brussels, 1990)
• Cahiers de L'Herne (Paris, 1980)
• The Clash of Ideas (Dublin-London, 1988)
• The Recorder (New York, 1983)
• Il Cinema in Irlanda (Pesaro, 1990)
• Irland: Merian (Munich, 1990)

Publications - Non Refereed essays and review articles have appeared in the following journals: 
The Republic, The New Statesman and Society, European Business Review, The New European, Fortnight, Magill, Guth agus Tuairim, The Cork Review, The Honest Ulsterman, MHL, Studies, TLS, Times Higher Education Supplement, New York Times Book Review, Raconteur.

• First place scholarships UCD: entance examination, 1973; first year BA, 1974; second year BA, 1975; third year BA, 1976
• National University Of Ireland Travelling Studentship (1977-80).
• Graduate Entrance Scholarship-Prize (McGill University, Montreal, 1976-1977)
• American Library Association (Choice Award For Outstanding Academic Publication Of 1988)
• London Independent Award For Best Book (1989)
• Irish Independent Award For Outstanding Achievement In The Arts/Culture (1984)
• Adolph Bendict Award Nomination For Outstanding Publication On European Culture(1994)
• Irish Times Nomination For Non-Fiction Award (1993)
• European Cultural Foundation Grant For 'visions Of Europe'(1992)