Eileen M Brennan
Dr
Eileen Brennan is an Associate Professor in the School of Human Development at the DCU Institute of Education. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. from University College Dublin, and an Habilitation au Doctorat and a Doctorat de Philosophie from the Catholic University of Paris.
She is one of the editors of Reading Ricoeur through Law (Lexington Books, 2022), and was formerly Co-editorial Director of the international, peer-reviewed, bilingual, academic journal, Études Ricoeuriennes /Ricoeur Studies. She has translated several philosophical books and articles, including Paul Ricoeur, On Translation (Routledge) and Dominique Janicaud, On the Human Condition (Routledge).
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | E. Brennan (2022) ''Kearney's Journey between Imagination and Touch -in Dialogue with Ricoeur'' In: Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney. Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge. | |
2022 | Paul Ricoeur (2022) ''The Just between the Legal and the Good' (E. Brennan trans.)' In: Reading Ricoeur through Law. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books. | |
2022 | Antoine Garapon (2022) ''Symbolism and the Generativity of Justice' (E. Brennan trans.)' In: Reading Ricoeur through Law. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books. | |
2019 | Brennan, E. (2019) 'The Role of Religious Symbolism in Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology' In: Ciphers of Transcendence. Dublin : Irish Academic Press. | |
2012 | Brennan, E. (2012) 'Communication, struggle, and human destiny: Ricoeur's Judicial Praxis and Heidegger's power of destiny' In: Human Destinies: Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty. [Link] | |
1999 | Greisch, J. and Brennan, E. (1999) 'Ethics and Lifeworlds (E. Brennan, trans.)' In: Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy. London and New York : Routledge. | |
1999 | Kristeva, Julia (1999) 'Revolt Today? (E. Brennan, trans.)' In: Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy. London and New York : Routledge. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Brennan, Eileen (2016) 'The History of Hermeneutics'. BLACKWELL COMPANION TO HERMENEUTICS, . | |
2016 | Brennan, Eileen (2016) 'Hermeneutics and Phenomenology'. BLACKWELL COMPANION TO HERMENEUTICS, . | |
2022 | Murphy, Regina; Ward, Francis; McCabe, Una; Flannery, Michael; Cleary, Andrea; Hsu, Hsiao-Ping; Brennan, Eileen (2022) 'Recasting embodied and relational teaching in the arts: teacher educators reflect on the potential of digital learning'. Irish Educational Studies, 41 (1). [DOI] | |
2018 | Brennan, Eileen (2018) 'Paul Ricoeur and the Theological Turn in French Phenomenology'. Philosophy Today, 62 (1). [DOI] | |
2014 | Brennan, Eileen (2014) 'Doing Justice to Justice: Ricoeur's Discovery of the Juridical Plane'. Philosophy Today, 58 (4). [DOI] | |
2008 | Brennan, E. (2008) 'Ricoeurian Hermeneutics and the Paradigm of Translation'. International Journal of Translation, 19 (2). | |
1995 | Ricoeur, P. and Brennan, E. (1995) 'Reflections on a New Ethos for Europe (E. Brennan, trans.)'. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 21 (no 5/6 1995):3-13. |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2017 | Brennan, E. and Amalric, J-L. (eds.) (2017) 'Varia' 8 (2) . | |
2017 | Brennan, E., Amalric, J-L., and Dosse, F. (eds.) (2017) 'History-Philosophy: Round Trip' 8 (1) . [Link] [DOI] | |
2016 | Brennan, E., Amalric, J-L., Busacchi, V. and César Freitas Pinto, W. (eds.) (2016) 'Ricoeur and Psychoanalysis' 7 (1) . [Link] [DOI] | |
2016 | Brennan, E., Amalric, J-L., Lelièvre, S. and Inizan, Y. (eds.) (2016) 'Ricoeur and the Arts' 7 (2) . [Link] https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2016.375 | |
2015 | Brennan, E. (2015) 'Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Self' . | |
2015 | Brennan, E., Amalric, J-L. and Dierckxsens, G. (eds.) (2015) 'Justice at its Margins' 6 (2) . [Link] [DOI] | |
2015 | Brennan, E. and Amalric, J-L. (eds.) (2015) 'Ricoeur and Translation' 6 (1) . [Link] [DOI] | |
2014 | Michel, J., Brennan, E. and Amalric, J-L. (eds.) (2014) 'The Social and Political Imaginary' 5 (2) . [Link] [DOI] | |
2014 | Michel, J. and Brennan, E. (eds.) (2014) 'Ricoeur and Analytic Philosophy' 5 (1) . [Link] [DOI] |
Conference Contribution
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | (2023) 6th Edition of the Fonds Ricoeur's Summer Workshop 'Parting Ways with the Philosophies of the Subject: Radical Break or Nothing New?' (Keynote) Paris, . [DOI] | |
2022 | E. Brennan (2022) 16th annual Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference 'Paul Ricoeur's Dialectical Conception of Justice' Los Angeles, California and online, . | |
2022 | McCabe, U.; Murphy; R. Ward, F.; Cleary, A; Brennan, E (2022) Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference 2022 A Matter of Presence in Higher Education Classrooms: Virtual and In Person Marino College Dublin, . | |
2021 | Brennan, E. (2021) The Rule of Metaphor. The Fourth Edition of the Fonds Ricoeur's Summer Workshops 'Poetics, Rhetoric, and Hermeneutics' (Keynote) Paris (hybrid conference), . | |
2021 | Brennan, E. (2021) The Annual International Graduate Conference, Galway 'Husserl and the Unlikely Origins of Ricoeur's Practical Philosophy' (Keynote) online conference hosted by NUI Galway, . | |
2020 | Brennan, E. (2020) 'Politics, Religion, and Cultural Hermeneutics'. 14th Annual Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference 'The Political Paradox: A Major Milestone in the Development of Ricoeur's Political Thought' (Keynote) online format, . | |
2019 | Brennan, E., A. O'Donnell (MU), Witt, C. (University of New Hampshire, USA), Battersby, C. (University of Warwick, UK), and K. O'Donnell (UCD) (2019) 7th Annual Conference and General Meeting of SWIP-Ireland Conference theme: Gender and Philosophy All Hallows Campus, DCU, . | |
2018 | Brennan, E. (2018) Summer Workshop, Fonds Ricoeur Freedom and Evil Paris, . | |
2018 | Brennan, E. (2018) 6th Annual Conference and General Meeting of SWIP, Ireland ‘Repositioning Feminism: Between Care and Justice’ UCD, . | |
2018 | Brennan, E. and Professor Zhang Jiang, First Vice-President of the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2018) 'A Round Table on Public Hermeneutics' 'An Intercultural Dialogue on Public Hermeneutics' Trinity College Dublin, 12/04/2018-12/04/2018. | |
2016 | Brennan, E. (2016) 'Hermeneutics, Culture, and the Humanities' Symposium 'Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self' MIC, Limerick, . | |
2016 | Brennan, E. (2016) UCD Festival 'The Future of Education in Ireland: a Creative Appropriation of the Tradition' UCD, 18/06/2016-18/06/2016. | |
2016 | Brennan, E. (2016) Crossing Boundaries: Ricoeur in a Global Age Paul Ricoeur and the Education Question De Paul University, Chicago, . | |
2016 | Brennan, E. (2016) The Gender, Public Policy and Philosophies of Emotion Workshop Teaching Patriotic Love in Schools Sutherland School of Law, UCD, . | |
2015 | Brennan, E. (2015) The Invited Speaker Seminars 2014-2015 'Competing Conceptions of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Heidegger v Ricoeur' University College Dublin, . | |
2015 | Brennan, E. (2015) The Reaches of Pragmatism Conference The Implausibility of Dewey Ascribing an Educative Function to Fear Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University College Dublin, . | |
2015 | Brennan, E. (2015) The Hermeneutics of Practice Workshop The Hermeneutics of Education Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, University of Dundee, . | |
2014 | Brennan, E. (2014) 'Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Asia' 'Hermeneutic Phenomenology, and the Paradigm of Translation' Soochow University, Taiwan, 29/05/2014-31/05/2014. | |
2013 | Brennan, E. (2013) International Postgraduate Conference 'Translations' 'Understanding, Interpretation, and the Paradigm of Translation' Cardiff University, 26/06/2013-28/06/2013. | |
2013 | Brennan, E. (2013) Camus and Beyond: Literature, Philosophy and the Political 'I rebel-therefore we exist: Camus on Rebellion and Solidarity' MIC, Limerick, 25/04/2013-26/04/2013. | |
2012 | Brennan, E. (2012) SWIP Ireland Inaugural Workshop 'Distributive Justice: A Hermeneutic Reading' Newman House, Dublin, 27/01/2012-27/01/2012. | |
2011 | Brennan, E. (2011) Conference on Initial Teacher Education Is There a Place for Habermas’ ‘Religious Citizens’ in Citizenship Education? St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, . | |
2010 | Brennan, E. (2010) Arts Faculty Seminar 'Recognition and Justice in Paul Ricoeur's Political Philosophy' MIC, Limerick, 23/02/2010-24/02/2010. | |
2010 | Brennan, E. (2010) Reading Ricoeur Once Again, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Ricoeur's Dialectical Conception of Justice Lisbon, Portugal, . | |
2009 | Brennan, E. (2009) Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference Paul Ricoeur’s Three Dimensional Justice: Distributive, Corrective, and Reconstructive George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA, . | |
2009 | Brennan, E. (2009) Invited Speakers Seminar 'Paul Ricoeur's Symbolism of Justice' NUI, Galway, 01/11/2009-02/11/2009. | |
2009 | Brennan, E. (2009) From Ricoeur to Action: An Interdisciplinary Conference, UK-Ireland Society for Ricoeur Studies, University of Kent Ricoeurian Justice: Where the Scales Eclipses the Gavel University of Kent, UK, . | |
2008 | Brennan, E. (2008) WIP Seminar, School of Philosophy, UCD Ricoeurian Hermeneutics and the Paradigm of Translation UCD, . | |
2007 | Brennan, E. (2007) SEP-FEP Conference, University of Sussex The Ethics of Translation University of Sussex, UK, . | |
2005 | Brennan, E. (2005) The 35th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle, UCD Respondent to Don Ihde’s paper, Phenomenology + Pragmatism = Postphenomenology UCD, . | |
2005 | Brennan, E. (2005) International Workshop on Humanism, UCD On Posthumanism UCD, . |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Brennan, E. (2021) 'Book Review around Richard Kearney' (Titles reviewed: Imagination Now. A Richard Kearney Reader; Radical Hospitality. From Thought to Action; and Touch. Recovering Our Most Vital Sense). BREV [Link] [DOI] | |
2015 | Brennan, E (2015) The Good of Recognition: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Religion in the Thought of Levinas and Ricoeur. PITTSBURGH: BREV [DOI] | |
1997 | Brennan, E. (1997) Nietzsche’s French Legacy. BREV |
Editorial
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Ricoeur, P. (2021) « Connaissance de l’homme par la littérature du malheur ». Foi-Éducation (Littérature et monde moderne) 21/15 (1951) mai, 149-156. France: ED [Link] | |
2015 | Brennan, E. (2015) Ricoeur and Translation. ED |
Sound recording
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Brennan, E. (2018) 'Freedom and Evil'. Paris: SOUND [Link] |
Other Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2013 | Brennan, Eileen (2013) Heidegger and the Measure of Truth. [DOI] |
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Research Interests
- narrative and metaphor in education;
- the interface between the philosophy of education and political theory;
- the hermeneutics of action;
- methodological advances and debates in phenomenology; and
- translating philosophical texts