Thoughts on Dante
I would like to offer some thoughts on my forthcoming Dante book, in this the year of the 700th anniversary of his death. I shall provide...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 1, 202110 min read
Existential Self and Society
I feel the need to make a little comment on a new book which argues that the critiques of Marx and Kierkegaard are complementary rather...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 31, 202015 min read
Dante's Symphony - explorations
DANTE’S SWEET SYMPHONY: STRUCTURE AND ORDER My Dante materials and notes, in some kind of order, if not shape. Here’s where I show the...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 26, 202019 min read
Teasing Out Truth: A Word in Praise of Sophism
Teasing Out Truth Bridging the Gap Between Theoretical Reason and Practical Reason Objective Truth and Subjective Appreciation In my work...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 25, 202011 min read
The Nativity as the Rebirth of Hope
It’s been a bleak year, but such years are nothing new in human history. People have faced tough times in the past. I won't say tougher,...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 24, 20208 min read
Industry and Europe - Industrial Strategy in a Globalised Economic Environment
Going through my old papers, I recovered my old research notes from the time I studied economics on the accredited masters at the...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 23, 202037 min read
Rational Freedom: Reconciling Autonomy and Authority
I’ve just received a new article from Unheard in my inbox, ‘Libertarianism Never Ends Well’ by Mary Harrington, December 23 2020. The...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 20, 20209 min read
Naturism, Romanticism, and Technocracy
Classless, amoral, and non-political. Such is the self-image of would-be planetary managers, a technocracy that works hand-in-hand with...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 19, 202016 min read
Against Homo Superior
We’ve seen them before in history. And here they all are again, Homo Superior, the people who claim to be 'evolutionary leaders.' Barbara...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202025 min read
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202014 min read
Taking Practical Reason Seriously
Taking Practical Reason Seriously I would like to comment on this conversation with Danny Cullenward and David Victor, authors of a new...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 15, 20201 min read
Track List for the Billy Maher Show Radio Merseyside as the 14th December 2019 became the 15th
A song list from the Saturday night when the 14th of December became the 15th I'll start with a song I've added to the list Mark Knopfler...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 202014 min read
Exposing the 'non-political' politics of the 'classless' class
In a tweet of 30th September, Greta Thunberg wrote this: “Ending fossil capitalism doesn't mean we have to implement socialism. We're...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 20205 min read
Climate Rebellion - Going Beyond the Default Options
Ten years ago, in Of Gods and Gaia, I analysed various proposals for planetary management and engineering to deal with the looming...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 25, 20208 min read
The Golden Bough
Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Golden Bough." This is a painting I've always loved. I saw it first on the front cover of a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 21, 202050 min read
Against Environmentalist Non-Politics
Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 19, 202011 min read
Reformation against Abstraction
The Need for Reformation Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (c1466-1536) is one of my most favourite figures in the history of ideas, a man...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 20209 min read
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest I am reading theorists working in the field of the commons advancing 'enlightened...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 17, 202010 min read
Socialism or Barbarism - Liberal Centrism Cannot Hold
"The Left must advance an alternative modernity." And an alternative morality, I would insist. I wish to write a few words on Erik...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 15, 202022 min read
The Ecology of Hope
The End of Civilisation or the End of the Capital System Affirming a Democratic Ecology against the Ecology of Fear The overwhelming...
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