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
Jul 14, 202019 min read
For the Healing
For the Healing In a post, a FB friend recently asked ‘where are the healers?’ I shall quote him in full, because his words here express...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 2, 20206 min read
All Our Days
I’m reading on Jack Charlton, the tall, gangly centre-half for Leeds United and England in the sixties up to his retirement in 1972 when...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Lost Content
It is Father’s Day today. It struck me today that I never once wished my father a Happy Father’s Day. When it was a happy day every day,...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 8, 20203 min read
The Religious Roots of Rational Freedom
If I may talk about myself (as usual), this interview with Jurgen Habermas caught my eye for personal reasons. I organized my work around...
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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
Dec 8, 20194 min read
Dispensing my Mind
There comes a point when the world, its events and its people finally become so overwhelming that you just have to call it a day. I had a...
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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 12, 201946 min read
In Praise of My Good Self
In Praise of My Good Self I have worked alone, outside of Academia and with no financial support, for a quarter of a century now. I don’t...
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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
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 6, 201924 min read
Top 0.1%
Top 0.1% Out of a few million academics, I'm in the Top 0.1% That’s not half bad. I suspect that, with the changes that are happening,...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 3, 201960 min read
Wittgenstein, Bewitchment, and Silence
The struggle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language I've been debating philosophy on social media again,...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 30, 201948 min read
Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives
Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives Whisper it to those who think that truth is factual and logical and no more, but it is entirely possible...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201918 min read
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth: Resolidifying 2
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth Resolidifying 2 When I first started to write on socialism and class, I was made...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201917 min read
Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial
Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial I would like to write in praise of The Workers Memorial here in St...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 20196 min read
Name Your Park: Ideas and Plans
NAME YOUR PARK: MY IDEAS AND PLANS In 2015 I was part of the “Your Name Here” citizen project. The good people of St Helens were granted...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 4, 201910 min read
The Return of Aristotle
Aristotle gets his revenge over ‘science-based’ culture Thank you Edward Feser for the arguments presented in this new book Aristotle’s...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 3, 201947 min read
Memories of Hillsborough, Thirty Years On
Memories of Hillsborough, Thirty Years On Thirty years ago today I was one of the few thousand Liverpool fans who went to a football...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 2, 201923 min read
The Springs of Action - Making Facts Existentially Meaningful
I shall begin with this letter that Dr Amanda Power sent to the Guardian: ‘Matt Waddup states (Report, theguardian.com, 30 May) that a...
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