Amazon.com description: Product Description: "States of Mind" is a series of dialogues conducted by Richard Kearney with twenty-two of the world's leading political, philosophical and literary thinkers. Each has helped to shape the most pressing debates of the century: national and international identity, ethics, art, language, psychology and religion. Through a searching and lively exchange of ideas, the reader is provided with a multitude of visions, which also act as introductions to the work of each critic and thinker. This is a book which addresses issues of a global range and makes some of the most pioneering and influential questions of our time available to a general readership.