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Eileen M Brennan

Contact Details

Spc M 101

T:Ext. 9225

E:Eileen.Brennan@dcu.ie

SPC M 101
T:Ext. 9225

E:Eileen.Brennan@dcu.ie

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

	Year	Publication
	2006	Ricoeur, P. and Brennan, E. (2006) On Translation (E. Brennan, trans.). London and New York: Routledge.
	2005	Janicauld, D. and Brennan, E. (2005) On the Human Condition (E. Brennan, trans.). London and New York: Routledge.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2025	Eileen Brennan (2025) 'Innovation and Creativity in Phenomenology: Paul Ricoeur's Legacy to Irish Phenomenology' In: Irish Phenomenology: Thinking With Heidegger And Beyond. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic.
	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.
	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.
	2019	Brennan, E. (2019) 'The Role of Religious Symbolism in Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology' In: Ciphers of Transcendence. Dublin : Irish Academic Press.
	2015	Brennan, E. (2015) 'The history of hermeneutics' In: BLACKWELL COMPANION TO HERMENEUTICS. [Link]
	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
	2023	Brennan, Eileen (2023) 'Paul Ricœur's Philosophy of Education and its Relevance for our Scientific-Technological Civilization'. ETUDES RICOEURIENNES-RICOEUR STUDIES, 14 (2). [DOI]
	2022	Murphy, R.; Ward, F.; McCabe, U.; Flannery, M.; Cleary, A.; Hsu, H.P.; Brennan, E. (2022) 'Recasting embodied and relational teaching in the arts: teacher educators reflect on the potential of digital learning'. Irish Educational Studies, 41 . [Link] [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
	2015	Brennan, E. (2015) 'Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of the Self' .

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	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, .
	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, .
	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) 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) 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, .
	2007	Brennan, E. (2007) SEP-FEP Conference, University of Sussex The Ethics of Translation University of Sussex, UK, .
	2005	Brennan, E. (2005) International Workshop on Humanism, UCD On Posthumanism UCD, .

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2021	Brennan, Eileen (2021) Richard Kearney and Melissa Fitzpatrick, Radical Hospitaly. From Thought to Action (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021). Pittsburgh, USA: BREV [DOI]
	2021	Brennan, Eileen (2021) Murray E. Littlejohn (ed.), Imagination Now. A Richard Kearney Reader (London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). BREV [DOI]
	2021	Brennan, Eileen (2021) Richard Kearney, Touch. Recovering our Most Vital Sense (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021). Pittsburgh, USA: BREV [DOI]
	2015	Brennan, Eileen (2015) Michael Sohn, The Good of Recognition: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Religion in the Thought of Lévinas and Ricœur (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2014). Pittsburgh, USA: BREV [DOI]
	1993	Brennan, Eileen (1993) Stephen H. Clark, Paul Ricoeur. BREV

Editorial

	Year	Publication
	2023	Brennan, Eileen (2023) Introduction - Ricœur and Education. ED [DOI]
	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]
	2019	B. C. Tasso, P. M. Malet, E. Brennan (translator) (2019) Introduction - Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2018	Eileen Brennan (2018) Introduction - Varia. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2017	Francois Dosse and Eileen Brennan (translator) (2017) Introduction - History-Philosophy: Round Trip. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2017	S. Lelievre, Y. Inizan, E. Brennan (trans.) (2017) Introduction - Ricoeur and the Arts. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2016	V. Bussachi, W.C.F. Pinto, E. Brennan (trans.) (2016) Introduction - Ricoeur and Psychoanalysis. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2015	Eileen Brennan (2015) Introduction - Ricoeur and Translation. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2014	Jean-Luc Amalric and Eileen Brennan (translator) (2014) Introduction - The Social and Political Imaginary. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]
	2014	Johann Michel and Eileen Brennan (translator) (2014) Introduction - Ricoeur and Analytic Philosophy. Pittsburgh, USA: ED [DOI]

Dictionary Entry

	Year	Publication
	2009	Brennan, E. (2009) Hermeneutics. London and New York: DE
	2009	Brennan, E. (2009) Paul Ricoeur. London and New York: DE

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2022	Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, Eileen Brennan (Ed.). (2022) Reading Ricoeur through Law. Lanham, USA: Lexington Books,

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2013	Brennan, Eileen (2013) Heidegger and the Measure of Truth. [DOI]

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	The Society for Ricoeur Studies	ordinary member	-

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	The DCU Press Editorial Board		01/10/2024 -
	Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society Editorial Board		01/05/2024 -
	Faculty Ethics Committee		01/10/2019 - 01/09/2022
	Committee of SWIP Ireland		04/10/2018 - 04/10/2022
	DCU's Women in Leadership Action Group		10/11/2017 - 30/08/2020
	Board of Directors of The Society for Ricoeur Studies		15/10/2013 - 04/11/2018
	Faculty Research Committee		14/12/2016 - 11/09/2017
	Research Ethics Steering Committee		01/10/2013 - 31/08/2014
	Strategic Planning Sub-Committee		30/11/2010 - 31/08/2014
	Staff-Student Liaison Committee (Human Development)		04/10/2010 - 31/08/2013
	SPD Appeals Board		04/10/2016 - 04/10/2016
	Research Review Committee		01/10/2010 - 31/08/2010
	Management Committee of the Education Department		01/10/2006 - 31/08/2008

Education

Institution	Qualification	Subject
Institut catholique de Paris	Doctorat de philosophie	Philosophy
Institut catholique de Paris	Habilitation au doctorat	Philosophy
University College Dublin	Master of Arts by Research	Philosophy
University College Dublin	B.A. (hons.)	English and Philosophy

Reviews

	Journal	Role
	ETUDES RICOEURIENNES-RICOEUR STUDIES	Editor

Other Activities

	Description
	External Examiner for a Ph.D. (Philosophy) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2024)
	External Examiner for the B.A. (Philosophy) Programme at University of Galway (2020-2024)
	External Examiner for the B.A. (Arts with Data Science) Programme at University of Galway (2020-2022)
	Interim External Examiner for the B.A. (Philosophy) Programme at University of Galway (2015-2016)
	External Examiner for the subject Philosophy of Education on the B.A. Programme at St Nicholas Montessori College, Dublin (2006-2009)
	External Examiner for the European Baccalaureate (Philosophy) at European School of Brussels II (2007-2010)
	External Examiner for the European Baccalaureate (Philosophy) at the European School Frankfurt (2008)
	External Examiner for the European Baccalaureate (Philosophy) at the European School Munich (2006, 2008)
	External Examiner for the European Baccalaureate (Philosophy) at the European School UK (2006)

Enterprise Engagement

Year	Engagement Type	Client	Description
2023	Invited talk/presentation	Le Fonds Ricoeur, Paris	Keynote speaker at 'The 6th Edition of the Fonds Ricoeur's Summer Workshops, Oneself as Another'.
2021	Invited talk/presentation	MA (Values and Knowledge) Class of 2020 at University of Galway	Keynote speaker at the NUIG Philosophy International Graduate Conference (online)
2021	Invited talk/presentation	Le Fonds Ricoeur, Paris.	Keynote speaker at 'The 4th Edition of the Fonds Ricoeur's Summer Workshops (online), The Rule of Metaphor'.
2020	Invited talk/presentation	The Society for Ricoeur Studies	Keynote speaker at the 14th Annual Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference (online), 'Politics, Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics'.
2018	Invited talk/presentation	SWIP Ireland	Keynote speaker at the 6th Annual Conference of SWIP Ireland, 'Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future'.
2016	Invited talk/presentation	SWIP Ireland	Invited speaker at the Workshop with Professor Bonnie Mann (Oregon), 'Gender, Public Policy, and Philosophy of the Emotions'.
2016	Invited talk/presentation	Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick	Invited speaker at the 'Hermeneutics, Culture and the Humanities Symposium'.
2015	Invited talk/presentation	The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK	Invited speaker at the 'Hermeneutics of Practice Workshop'.
2015	Invited talk/presentation	UCD School of Philosophy, University College Dublin	Invited speaker at the Visiting Speaker Seminars, 2014-2015.
2015	Invited talk/presentation	UCD School of Philosophy, University College Dublin	Invited speaker at 'Reaches of Pragmatism': Summer Institute in American Philosophy.
2013	Invited talk/presentation	School of Modern Languages, University of Cardiff, UK	Keynote speaker at the International Postgraduate Conference, 'Translations'.
2013	Invited talk/presentation	Department of Philosophy, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan	Invited speaker at the 'Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and Asia Conference'.
2013	Invited talk/presentation	Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick	Invited speaker at a workshop entitled, 'Camus and Beyond: Literature, Philosophy and the Political'
2012	Invited talk/presentation	SWIP Ireland	Invited speaker at 'The Society for Women in Philosophy Ireland Inaugural Workshop'.
2010	Invited talk/presentation	The Faculty of Arts, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick	Invited speaker at the Arts Faculty Seminar, 'Home and Foreign'.
2009	Invited talk/presentation	Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland, Galway	Invited speaker at the Department of Philosophy's Visiting Speakers Series, 2009-2010.
2005	Invited talk/presentation	The Husserl Circle	Invited to respond to Don Ihde's paper: 'Phenomenology + Pragmatism = Postphenomenology" at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle hosted by UCD School of Philosophy.

Outreach Activities

	Year	Engagement Type	Organisation	Description
	2016	Presentations/Talks to an external audience	UCD Festival, University College Dublin	Participated in the Education Debate, 'Preserving the old or welcoming the new: What is the role of education in Ireland?' at the UCD Festival 2016 - Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Media

	Title	Year	Type	Authors
	Paul Ricoeur: The philosopher behind Emmanuel Macron	2017	Newspaper column (online)	Joe Humphreys

Research Interests

Google Scholar page

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

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Kouker,Alexander Paul	Doctor of Education	Supervisor

Teaching Interests

social philosophy
democratic education.
feminist perspectives on education
critical history

Modules Coordinated

	Term	Title	Subject
	Autumn 2024	Social Philosophy	HDE1013 Social Philosophy
	Autumn 2024	Current Issues	EDU1162 Current Issues