Brian Treanor
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Boston College, 2001
Specialties: Continental Philosophy (Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Existentialism), Environmental Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Special Interests: Hermeneutics and narrative; virtue ethics, especially the developing field of environmental virtue ethics; the intersections of continental philosophy and theology.
Current Projects: A book on the role of narrative in virtue ethics; a book chapter on hospitality and place; an article on deconstruction, religion, and our assessment of the non-human world; an article on the senses in which we can 'hear' nature; an article on Ricoeur's use of 'ideology' and 'utopia,' applied to environmental politics; an article on a virtue ethics approach to eating, especially the issue of vegetarianism.
Selected Publications:
Aspects of Alterity: Levinas.], Marcel and the Contemporary Debate [NY: Fordham University Press, 2006].
A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur, co-edited with Henry Isaac Venema [NY: Fordham University Press, forthcoming].
"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, forthcoming in 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].
“The Virtue of Simplicity,” The Concord Saunterer, Vol. 15, 2007.
Contact Information:
University Hall 3639
Phone: 310-338-3711
Email: btreanor@lmu.edu
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