Faculty Publications

Lissa McCullough (Lecturer in Philosophy)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil (2025) Bloomsbury Publishing

The first reference work in any language dedicated to French philosopher Simone Weil (1909–1943) offering contributions by some forty international experts on her work. The volume includes an introduction to Weil’s intense life, a guide to her writings and exploration of the key terms of her thinking and the principal figures who influenced her.




McCullough (Lecturer in Philosophy)
The Religious Philosophy of Simone Weil (2014)f
I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing

Offers an in-depth guide to the key themes of Simone Weil's religious philosophy such as the relation between good and evil, gravity and grace, beauty and suffering, the void and “waiting for God.” This is the first introductory book to show the essential coherence of her enigmatic and remarkable religious ideas.





Brian Gregor (Professor)
Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Religion: Rebirth of the Capable Self
Lexington Books/Rowman Littlefield, 2019

Brian Gregor's book draws on the full scope of Ricoeur's writings to lay out the essential features of his philosophical interpretation of religion, from his earliest to his last work.





Brian Gregor (Professor)
A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross: The Cruciform Self (Philosophy of Religion) 
Indiana University Press, March 2013

What does the cross, both as a historical event and a symbol of religious discourse, tell us about human beings? In this provocative book, Brian Gregor draws together a hermeneutics of the self―through Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Taylor―and a theology of the cross―through Luther, Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, and Jüngel―to envision a phenomenology of the cruciform self. The result is a bold and original view of what philosophical anthropology could look like if it took the scandal of the cross seriously instead of reducing it into general philosophical concepts.



Dana Belu (Professor)
Heidegger, Reproductive Technology, & The Motherless Age
Palgrave Macmillan, April 2017

Dana S. Belu combines Heidegger’s phenomenology of technology with feminist phenomenology in order to make sense of the increased technicization of women’s reproductive bodies during conception, pregnancy, and birth. 




Jung Kwon (Lecturer)
Compassionate Socrates: Readings on Wisdom across the Cultures and Disciplines
Cognella, 2021

Dr. Jung book takes the form of an interdisciplinary dialogue on human experiences in religion, art, science, and philosophy with comparative streak of Socratic wisdom interplaying with eastern spirit.