Traversing the Heart Journeys of the Inter-Religious Imagination

Richard Kearney, Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Paris (1980), holds the Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature and has edited 15 more. His most recent work is "Anatheism: Returning To God After God" (Columbia University Press, 2010) Eileen Rizo-Patron, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Binghamton University (2006), has worked as a visiting scholar and editor at Boston College since 2006. She has published several articles on Gaston Bachelard's poetics of imagination and on the role of oneirics in testimonial literature. Her English translation of Gaston Bachelard's seminal book on time, "Intuition Of The Instant, is forthcoming" (Northwestern University Press, 2010).