This edited collection responds to Richard Kearney's recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body.

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Charles S. Casassa SJ Chair at Loyola Marymount University in California, USA.

James L. Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and Peacemaking and Director of International Programs at the European Center for the Study of War and Peace.

1. Introduction: Re-touching Philosophy with Richard Kearney Part I: Touching Nature 2. Thinking Like a Jaguar: Carnal Hermeneutics, Touch, and the Limits of Language 3. Sensing the Call of Other Animals: Carnal Hermeneutics and the Ethico-Moral Imagination 4. The Embodied Human Being in Touch with the World: Richard Kearney and Hedwig Conrad-Martius in Conversation Part II: Touching the Sacred 5. Carnal Sacrality: Phenomenology, the Sacred, and Material Bodies in Richard Kearney 6. Deep Calls to Deep 7. Strangers, Gods, and Demons: Toward a Carnal Hermeneutics of the Demonic Part III: Touching Imagination 8. Earth Creatures: Anacarnation in an Excarnate Age 9. Richard Kearney, Terrence Malick, and the Hidden Life of Sense 10. Kearney's Journey between Imagination and Touch - in Dialogue with Ricoeur Part IV: Touching Flesh 11. Anaskesis: Retrieving Flesh in an Age of Excarnation 12. Female Nakedness in Protest: Tactile Reading 13. Touch Thyself: Kearney's Anacarnational Return to Plato's Forgotten Wisdom 14. No Longer a Spectator Only Part V: Finishing Touches 15. Anacarnation: Recovering Embodied Life