Marx and Rational Freedom
Marx and Rational Freedom I read Marx critically and not theologically, which is how Marx intended he be read. I appreciate the fact that...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 12, 202229 min read
Transcending the Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World
The Existential Self-Hatred that Consumes the World Or, The Egoism that Eats God and Feeds Gods The main focus of this essay is the need...
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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
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, 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 14, 202010 min read
The Return of Materialist Dialectics
My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 11, 20208 min read
Reclaiming Socialism, Reframing Conservatism
This post is written in response to an article which compares and contrasts left- and right-wing political perspectives. From a...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 202016 min read
Materialist Dialectics
It is exactly twenty five years ago since I was accepted as a doctoral student at Manchester, so I’ve been looking back, with a mixture...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 29, 202034 min read
Thoughts on Tocqueville, Democracy, and Transcendent Standards
Thoughts on Tocqueville, Democracy and Transcendent Standards Nietzsche was right, but Nietzsche went mad. He was right that truth and...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 20192 min read
Significant and Meticulous
My work on Marx is described as ‘significant’ and ‘meticulous’ by Barbara Harriss-White in The Socialist Register. It is, actually. And...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 18, 201977 min read
Emerging from Under the Shadows of Modernity
Emerging from Under Modernity's Shadow Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 201910 min read
Maritain Not Martian
Maritain Not Martian I’m reading this article, Maritain the Martian by Randall Smith. Jacques Maritain was one of the most prolific and...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 11, 201965 min read
System Change and Social Transformation
I came across this video and statement from Rob Hopkins of the Transitions Towns movement. I like Rob and his work on transitions. I...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 4, 201951 min read
Socialism and Liberalism
Socialism and Liberalism Let me start by declaring myself an ‘enemy’ of ‘the Open Society.’ If you are smart enough, you will understand...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 1, 20198 min read
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
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
May 20, 201927 min read
The Eco-Republic
The Eco-Republic The Eco-Republic The Republic in an Age of Social Ecology I'd like to talk a little about 'Green Republicanism' as it...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 17, 20197 min read
Christian Democracy in the collision of moral and economic imperatives
Christian Democracy in the collision of moral and economic imperatives This is an interesting read for me, as a socialist with religious...
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