On Stories (Thinking in Action)

by Richard Kearney

This volume is the first in a trilogy bearing the overall title ‘Philosophy at the Limit’. The two subsequent volumes are entitled Strangers, Gods and Monsters (London and New York, Routledge, forthcoming 2002) and The God who May Be (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2001). Each deals, in its different way, with experiences of extremity which reside at the edge of our conventional understanding, seeking to address phenomena beyond the strict frontiers of reason alone in efforts to imagine new possibilities of saying and being. The three volumes share an abiding conviction that when we are confronted with the apparently inexplicable and unthinkable, narrative matters.