Brian Treanor

Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Director, Environmental Studies Program

Brian TreanorPh.D., Boston College, 2001

Specialties: Continental Philosophy (Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Existentialism), Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Environmental Philosophy

Special Interests: The intersections of continental philosophy and theology; hermeneutics and narrative; virtue ethics.

Current Projects: The final stages of a book on narrative and virtue; a second book project on theologicaly and ethical issues related to the difference between avoiding evil and being good; an article on the role of place in religious and spiritual experience; a second article on the role of embodiment in religious and spiritual experience; preparing to host the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology (spring 2012), which should result in another co-edited project, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association (fall 2012) at LMU.

Selected Publications:

Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics (NY: SUNY Press, forthcoming).

Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, co-edited with Forrest Clingerman, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler (NY: Fordham University Press, forthcoming).

A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, co-edited with Henry Isaac Venema [NY: Fordham University Press, 2010].

Aspects of Alterity: Levinas.], Marcel and the Contemporary Debate [NY: Fordham University Press, 2006].

"Putting Hospitality in Its Place," in Phenomenologies of the Stranger: Between Hostility and Hospitality, Richard Kearney and Kascha Semon, eds. (NY: Fordham University Press, 2011).

"The Anatheistic Wager: Faith After Faith," Religion and the Arts, Vol. 14 (2010).

"Emplotting Virtue," in A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, Brian Treanor and Henry Isaac Venema, eds. (NY: Fordham University Press, 2010).

"How Much More than Possible?", with Henry Isaac Venema, in A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, Brian Treanor and Henry Isaac Venema, eds. (NY: Fordham University Press, 2010).

"High Aspirations: Climbing and Self-Cultivation," in Climbing: Philosophy for Everyone, Stephen Schmid, ed. (Malden and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

"Blessed Are Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Believe," Analecta Hermeneutica, Vol. 2, forthcoming in 2010.

"Environmentalism and Public Virtue," in Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2010). Reprinted in Virtue Ethics and the Environment, Philip Cafaro and Ronald Sandler, eds. (Springer, 2010), 9-28.

"What Tradition? Whose Archive?: Blogging, Googlewashing and the Digitalization of the Archive," Analecta Hermeneutica, Vol. 1, 2009.

"Embodied Ears: Being in the World and Hearing the Other," in Words of Life: New Theological Turns in French Phenomenology [NY: Fordham University Press, 2009].

“Phronesis With a Phronimos: Narrative Environmental Ethics,” in Environmental Ethics, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2008.

“Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder,” in Transforming Philosophy and Religion: Love’s Wisdom, eds. Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba [Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008].

Contact Information:

University Hall 3639
Phone: 310-338-3711
Email: btreanor@lmu.edu
Website