The Needle’s Eye

Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and is author of many books on European philosophy and Irish culture, including Postnationalist Ireland, Transitions: Narratives in Irish Culture and Navigations: Collected Irish Essays (1977-2007). He is also a novelist and poet.

Richard Kearney

The World Coming at Us Backward

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Commiserating with Devastated Things

Sages and Holy Fools

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

Double Remembrance

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and is author of many books on European philosophy and Irish culture, including Postnationalist Ireland, Transitions: Narratives in Irish Culture and Navigations: Collected Irish Essays (1977-2007). He is also a novelist and poet.