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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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 | |
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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. |
Conference Contribution
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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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 | |
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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] |
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