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Carnal Hermeneutics

Editors discuss this new book of essays by philosophers.

On Monday October 26 at 7pm independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor to discuss their new book Carnal Hermeneutics (Fordham University Press).

Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern.

The book features essays by an impressive array of today’s preeminent philosophers as they seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.

Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, these philosophers argue that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes “all the way down,” carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body.

This is a free event and Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor will be available to sign books following the discussion.  











When: Mon., Oct. 26, 2015 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Book Culture
536 W. 112th St.
212-865-1588
Price: Free
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Editors discuss this new book of essays by philosophers.

On Monday October 26 at 7pm independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor to discuss their new book Carnal Hermeneutics (Fordham University Press).

Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern.

The book features essays by an impressive array of today’s preeminent philosophers as they seek to interpret the surplus of meaning that arises from our carnal embodiment, its role in our experience and understanding, and its engagement with the wider world.

Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, these philosophers argue that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations. Because interpretation truly goes “all the way down,” carnal hermeneutics rejects the opposition of language to sensibility, word to flesh, text to body.

This is a free event and Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor will be available to sign books following the discussion.  

Buy tickets/get more info now