Brendan Purcell

Senior Lecturer, University College, Dublin

Education:

MA, STL (Pontifical Lateran University, Rome) PhD
1960-63: BA in Logic and Philosophy, 1963, at University College Dublin.
1963-65: Pontifical Lateran University, Rome (BD, 1965; STL, 1967).
1967-69: MA in philosophy at UCD

1969-72: Post graduate study Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Leuven.
1981: PhD University College Dublin: Wewards: Theoretical Foundations for a Psychology of Friendship.

Publications:

'Solzhenitsyn's Struggle for Personal, Social and Historical Anamnesis.' Philosophical Studies, 28 (1981), 62-88.

'La persona come comunione. Riflessioni in chiave psicologica.' Nuova Umanità, 5 (1983) 30, 87-98.

'In Search of Newgrange: Long Night's Journey into Day.' In: The Irish Mind: Exploring Intellectual Traditions. Ed. R. Kearney (Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1985), 39-55 & 319-23.

The Drama of Humanity: Towards a Philosophy of Humanity in History. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996.

'Darwinism: Dangerous Idea or Deconstructed Myth?' In: The Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Irish Philosophical Society, edited by Thomas Kelly (Maynooth: Irish Philosophical Society, 1997), 40-54.

'The Philosophical Context of the "Hitler and the Germans" Lectures,' in: Eric Voegelin, Hitler and the Germans. (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, vol. 31.) Translated and edited with an Introduction by Detlev Clemens and Brendan Purcell (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), 21-40.

'Reflections on Evolution in the Light of a Philosophical Biology,' in: Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth. Eds. James McEvoy and Michael Dunne, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002).

'Amor amicitiae in the Bhagavad Gita.'In: Amor Amicitiae: On the Love that is Friendship. Essays in Medieval Thought and Beyond, in Honor of Professor James McEvoy, eds. Thomas Kelly & Phillipp Rosemann (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), 347-77.

'The Big Mystery: Human Emergence as Cosmic Metaxy,' In: Philosophy, Literature and Politics: Essays Honoring Ellis Sandoz, Eds. Charles R. Embry and Barry Cooper (Columbia: University of Missouri Press), 2005, 102-25.

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