Passion for the Possible

Brian Treanor is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of Aspects of Alterity (Fordham, 2006) and Emplotting Virtue (SUNY Press, 2014), and the coeditor of A Passion for the Possible (Fordham University Press, 2010), Interpreting Nature (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Being-in-Creation (Fordham University Press, 2015). Current projects include the development of an "earthy" hermeneutics, and a monograph on the experience of joy.Henry Venema is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brandon University, in Canada. He is the author of Identifying Selfhood: Imagination, Narrative, and Hermeneutics in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur.

"This is the first collection of essays to self-consciously address itself retrospectively to Paul Ricoeur's philosophical oeuvre." -- -W. David Hall Centre College "Many scholars from a variety of disciplines will find this an interesting and enlightening text. It not only broadens our understanding of Ricoeur's work but also builds on it, following his exemplary model on how to do philosophy." -- -Christina Gschwandtner University of Scranton