What is Carnal Hermeneutics?
Abstract
What is the sense of sense? How do we read between the lines of skin and flesh? How do we interpret the world with our bodily senses, and especially those senses long neglected in western philosophy—taste and touch? How, in other words, do we discern the world as this or that, as hospitable or hostile, as attractive or repulsive, as tasty or tasteless, as living or dying? These are key questions of carnal hermeneutics.
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Touch has a privileged place in carnal hermeneutics.
“However, touch does have a privileged place in carnal hermeneutics”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney 2015
Kearney's carnal hermeneutics is an attempt to theorise understanding as such rather than how understanding takes place in relation to a particular kind of text.
“It is, then, an attempt to theorise understanding as such rather than how understanding takes place in relation to a particular kind of text.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
Carnal hermeneutics is Kearney's attempt to recall the body to the sphere of interpretation.
“Carnal hermeneutics is Kearney's attempt to recall the body to the sphere of interpretation.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
Gadamer and Ricœur turned away from the body when they turned to hermeneutics in the 1960s.
“when philosophers like Gadamer and Ricœur turned to hermeneutics in the 1960s they turned away from the body.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
Touch and taste are at the heart of carnal hermeneutics, being the foundation on which all distinctions we make in the world rest.
“Touch and taste are at the heart of a carnal hermeneutics, being the foundation on which all distinctions we make in the world rest.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney 2015
Games offer an interesting example of the interaction of text, meaning and body, and so help to extend Kearney's discussions of carnal hermeneutics in new directions.
“Games offer an interesting example of the interaction of text, meaning and body, and so help to extend Kearney's discussions of carnal hermeneutics in new directions.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
Carnal hermeneutics claims that the body makes sense of the world by making distinctions and evaluating those distinctions in a non-predicative mode.
“Carnal hermeneutics claims that the body makes sense of the world by making distinctions and evaluating those distinctions in a non-predicative mode.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
Players make sense of digital games through sensation in a non-predicative, pre-linguistic mode from within the event of play, by evaluating distinctions.
“the article argues that we make sense of games through sensation in a non-predicative, pre-linguistic mode whereby we evaluate distinctions.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
Kearney sees the great achievement of Husserl and his followers to be the establishment of the body as a site of philosophy.
“Kearney (2015) sees the great achievement of Husserl and his followers to be the establishment of the body as a site of philosophy.”
From Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game (2018) · cites this paper as Kearney (2015)
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Carnal Hermeneutics and the Digital Game
Martin, P. (2018) · Journal of the Philosophy of Games · doi:10.5617/jpg.2934 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Kearney, R.
- Corresponding author
- Kearney, Richard
- ORCID
- Kearney, Richard
- Venue
- New Literary History
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2015-12
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 99-124
- ISSN
- 0028-6087 (ISSN-L)
- 1080-661X
- OpenAlex
- W582243268
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 97.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- New Literary History (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Literary Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
- Keywords
- bodily senses, taste, touch, skin, flesh, embodiment, attraction and repulsion, life and death
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