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David Beirne

B.A. (Sociology), University of Liverpool
M.A. (Philosophy and Religion), Heythrop College, University of London

Contact:

Postgraduate room, Arts Millennium Building (AM 206)
Email: d.beirne2nuigalway.ie
Tel:     0871410974

Biography:

After completing his BA from the University of Liverpool in 1994 David worked for a number of years as a social worker and then, as a charity fundraiser. These positions gave David invaluable insight into the variety and vulnerability of the human experience.

David returned to education in 2005 to take up a place on a Masters programme in Philosophy and Religion at Heythrop College, the specialist philosophy and theology college of the University of London. David completed his Masters with a thesis on Gillian Rose’s reading of Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous authorship.

David moved to the west of Ireland from London a year ago to begin research on a PhD in the philosophy department at NUIG. David is enjoying the way of life in Galway, particularly the Guinness and the rain…

Current Research:

Between Immanence and Transcendence: On the Religious Significance of the Hegelian Middle

The overall aim of David’s research is to re-assert the centrality of the religious dimension to Hegel’s thought through a retrieval of his paradoxical, speculative logic, which refuses a strict separation between the infinite and the finite or the natural and supernatural. The work seeks to explore how simultaneous Identity and non-identity opens up a middle space where the divine is both sought and gratuitously received as gift.

    

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