Richard Kearney holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and has served as a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of Nice.
He is the author of over 26 books on European philosophy and literature (including three novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 23 more.
He was formerly a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Higher Education Authority of Ireland and chairman of the Irish School of Film at University College Dublin.
As a public intellectual he presented numerous series on culture and philosophy for Irish and British television and broadcast extensively on the European and international media (France Culture, ABC, CBC etc).
He is currently the international director of the Guestbook Project–Hosting the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality.
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