Recovering the Ethical Dimensions of Socialism
I wish to discuss aspects of this article, reviewing a new book by Erik Olin Wright: How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century I’d...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 2019118 min read
Coercive Environmental Collectivism advancing the Corporate Form
Why we need heroes like Greta Thunberg There is an ugly campaign underway to discredit Greta Thunberg. That campaign is based on fear of...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 20194 min read
Charles Aznavour - Select Discography
Charles Aznavour - Select Discography I was recently in Nice, enjoying myself immensely. I purchased a book containing all the songs and...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 17, 201919 min read
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action I am reading conservative criticisms of what they call a ‘coercive...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 11, 20199 min read
Fostering Transformative Motivations within Communities of Practice
Fostering Transformative Motivations within Communities of Practice I’ve been re-reading Lewis Mumford recently, noting the contemporary...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 11, 201937 min read
God's Invitation to Play
God’s invitation to Play The Beauty that lights the path to the Truth and Goodness of the World Ecology friends on social media shared,...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 10, 2019111 min read
Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest
Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest Introduction I start by noting the extent to which defenders of the institutions of...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 6, 201958 min read
Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope
Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope I shall start with a quote from John Bellamy Foster’s article The Long Ecological...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 4, 201911 min read
Hell is So Boring!
Hell is So Boring! "'Heaven is so boring.' That’s the complaint of a modern-day version of Dante Alighieri in Inferno the Musical, a look...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 31, 201911 min read
Françoise Hardy Best Songs
Françoise Hardy Best Songs I have published a complete discography of the songs of Françoise Hardy. I shall provide the link at the...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 22, 20199 min read
Natural Anarchy
One of the great themes in my old political theory and political sociology classes at university was the clash between elite theory and...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 22, 201930 min read
Françoise Hardy Discography
COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY The following table gives a (well-nigh) complete list of every song ever recorded by Françoise Hardy. Or, more...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 21, 201981 min read
Green Republicanism vs Anti-Political Extremism
Green Republicanism vs Anti-Political Extremism Sustaining the Health of the Political Environment I write this piece in response to the...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 19, 201918 min read
The Blight of Essentialism Hunting
The Blight of Essentialism Hunting To begin, I quote from this feminist essay on the origins of the wrong turn taken by feminist studies...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 17, 201919 min read
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise
Dante’s Sweet Symphony of Paradise I have been working on this book since February 2017. It started as an article on Dante and music as I...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 15, 20199 min read
Ecopoetics, Disclosing the Hidden God in Nature
Ecopoetics, disclosing the Hidden God in Nature “Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret,...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 15, 20197 min read
Finding Meaning Through Metaphor
"Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car," William Blake Finding Meaning Through Metaphor The Power of Metaphoric Thinking Here is an...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 15, 201916 min read
Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith Nothing worthy proving can be proven The painting is Leap of Faith by Jon Morro. He describes it thus: I took a detail of...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 13, 201918 min read
Dialectic and Disclosure
Disclosing Truth The photograph is of the sculpture of Pythagoras in the Incarnation Portal of the west façade of Chartres Cathedral....
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Peter Critchley
Jul 13, 201919 min read
Tolkien and the Ethics of Enchantment
Tolkien and the Ethics of Enchantment “The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of...
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