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Peter Critchley

Apr 7, 202134 min read

Editing the Endless Love on the Unending Road

Dante’s Politics of Love In 2016 I started to write on the internal music in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy, under the title of Dante’s Sweet...

Peter Critchley

Jan 6, 20219 min read

Dante the Christian Humanist

Dante incurred great intellectual risks in expressing himself in concrete terms comprehensible to uneducated minds, but these risks had...

Peter Critchley

Jan 3, 202115 min read

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Peter Critchley

Mar 24, 20196 min read

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