EDITING AND PUBLISHING PLAN
Work in Progress
List already written works to be re-read, edited, and published;
List and categorize “Being and Place” essays/posts and select and fit relevant text to the works above;
Put the Dante materials in order (do not add! Actually, write up the notes on mysticism. But no more!);
Put the Winstanley materials in order, write up the research notes;
Rescue my Lewis Mumford writings, add quotations, issue;
Relax;
Finally start the beautiful Rousseau book I promised myself and the world in 2001.
Or maybe find a team of willing helpers/servants who know exactly what it is I am saying, agree wholeheartedly, and who will put it all on paper in the order it is in in my head. And make all the right connections.
WORKS TO BE EDITED AND PUBLISHED (with current word counts, please try not to add ... )
The Ecology of Good 153,000
Being and Place: The Dialectics of Catastrophe and Hope 88,813
The Age of Moral Ecology 46,245
Cultivating Wholeness (Wild Ethics) 50,974
The Fabric of the Purposive Universe 47,026
Ecological Humanism 40,630
The Economics of Happiness 8,000
The Quest for Meaning in the Universe:
Physics, Purpose, and Seeing God in the Face of the Other 99,263
Philosophy as Projection: Sensible Transcendence 115,691
BEING AND PLACE ESSAYS
(edit with a view to being incorporated within the above texts, or as stand-alone books)
PHILOSOPHY
Ecological Virtue [Moral Ecology]
The Age of Moral Ecology 4, 603 [Moral Ecology]
The End 1,651 [Moral Ecology]
Wittgenstein, Bewitchment, and Silence 15,868 [Sometimes Mystic]
Words in-Action 17,447 [Sometimes Mystic]
A Few of us have Many Eyes 4,242 [Sometimes Mystic]
The Love that Seeketh Not its Own 13, 657 [Sometimes Mystic]
Reason and Reality
Metaphysical Reconstruction
Scientific and Moral Truth (the fact-value dualism) 34,945 [metaphysical reconstruction - fact and value – modernity and its separations]
What Place Value in a World of Fact 16,130 [metaphysical reconstruction - modern dualism]
The Blight of Essentialism Hunting 4,375 [metaphysical reconstruction – essentialist metaphysics]
Dialectic and Disclosure 4,940 [metaphysical reconstruction]
Metaphysical Recovery and Reconstruction 7,328
Levels of Cognition 300 [metaphysical reconstruction - forms of knowledge]
Philosophy and Science 2,298 [metaphysical reconstruction - scientism, value, meaning, and will]
Spectators under Eternity or Participants within the Creative Universe 2,200 [beyond mechanicism]
From Core to Infinity 15,171 [metaphysical reconstruction – disclosure and imposure]
The Whole World Order, against the delusions of separation 16, 578 [modernity and dualism]
The Rational Utopia 470 [philosophical foundations]
Hegel, Objectification and Alienation 642 [philosophical foundations]
Reason and Alienation 1,119 [philosophical foundations]
Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita 5,290 [metaphysical reconstruction]
Between you and reality is a pile of books 1,814 [fabric of the universe]
Being at One 1,573
Heart, Hand and Head 932 [eco-praxis]
Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives 11,720 [fact and value – cultivating the inner motives]
Hearing the Deep Cry of Meaning 15,479 [existential crisis]
Toward Reason existing in Rational Form 4, 547 [rational freedom]
The Rational Universe, Creative Human Agency and the Logic of Collective Action 4,295 [rational freedom]
The Game of Life: Response to Chess as Applied to Feminism 5,590
Why Philosophy 5,726
The Most Influential Living Philosophers 12,802
Being in Touch with Life (Montaigne) 9, 658
Rousseau, Natural Law and Rational Freedom 35, 525 [Rousseau]
Virtue Ethics [Moral Ecology]
The Necessity of Virtue 263
Nature via Nurture 361
A Call to Virtue 2,366
Kant, MacIntyre, Virtue and the Enlightenment project 1,231
Character and the Common Good (MacIntyre) 2,821
The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre and Lewis Mumford 9,198
Plato and Aristotle [Moral Ecology/Ecology of Good]
Socrates and Moral Knowledge 1,296
The Return of Aristotle 2,604
Aristotle's Flourishing 446
Aristotle and the Reenchantment of Nature 3,426
Plato and Democracy 1,046
Plato Theory of Forms 524
Plato, Art, and Eternity 1,226
Plato's Cave, Objective Reality and Morality 820
POETRY, ART, AND LITERATURE
I’m searching for a title for my work in literary ecology. Joseph Meeker has The Comedy of Survival. I like The Comedy, of course, but ‘survival’ does nothing for me. All material things pass, I suffer no existential crises in this respect. I fear, instead, the danger of propter vitam vivendi perdere causas, of clinging on to life at the expense of everything that makes living worthwhile and meaningful. (From Juvenal, Satyricon VIII, verses 83–84, on account of life, to lose the reasons for living). That purposeless materialism is precisely why civilisation is now in the mess it is now in, squandering life’s true purpose merely to exist, being content with a meaningless life, an expansion of material means accumulating endless material quantities, diminishing meaning and quality. I shall give some thought to a title for my writings on ecopoetics and literary ecology.
For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble 2,377 [literary ecology]
The Unveiling of a Gravestone to William Blake 995 [literary ecology]
The Light Within 4,216 [literary ecology]
In The World of Waldo Williams 5, 076 [literary ecology]
Marc Chagall - art as a state of soul 526 [literary ecology]
Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Place 4,589 [literary ecology]
Poetry and the Moral Sense of Place 2,175 [literary ecology]
The Poetry of Earth 6, 0004 [literary ecology]
Ecopoetics: Disclosing the Hidden God in Nature 2,406 [literary ecology]
Finding Meaning through Metaphor 1,707 [literary ecology]
Tolkien and the Ethics of Enchantment 5,264 [literary ecology]
Ecological Restoration as a Restorying 6,778 [literary ecology]
Samuel Palmer Mysterious Moonlit Dreams 386 [literary ecology]
Song of the Earth 852 [literary ecology]
The Imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma – Ursula Le Guinn 3,735 [literary ecology]
Natural Anarchy 2,372 [literary ecology]
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo 3,652 [literary ecology]
Dante and Marx 7,501 [Dante]
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise 5,190 [Dante]
Fire and Ice where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth… 8,000 [Dante]
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise 3,827 [Dante]
Ruins
GERRARD WINSTANLEY
Gerrard Winstanley and the Wealth of the Commons and the Weal of the Commoners 7,158
Love, Liberty and Law 31,136
Spirit, Reason, Nature, Freedom 3,558
The Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley 40, 410
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley 41, 614
The True Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley 649
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley
ECONOMICS
Economics, Ecology and Ethics 2,818 [Economics of Happiness]
Markets and Morality: Where do public virtues come from? 2,798 [Economics of Happiness]
Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Democratic Will: Political Control and the Globalization of Economic Relations 22, 747 [Economics of Happiness]
The Economics of the Good (Adam Smith) 9, 285 [Economics of Happiness]
We have to learn to Collaborate and Share 1,019 [Economics of Happiness]
Commoning Together 2,821 [Economics of Happiness]
Comm- 121 [Economics of Happiness]
The Economics of Purpose - E.F. Schumacher and R.H. Tawney 3,067 [Economics of Happiness]
Marx, ecological rift and the social metabolic order 6, 891 [Critique of Political Economy]
The Madness of Capitalist Reason 3,962 [Critique of Political Economy]
Reform and Reformation 5,232 [Critique of Political Economy]
Socially Useful Production - a New Lucas Plan 3,179 [Eco-Socialism]
Workers of all lands unite - and build the cooperative commonwealth 2,940 [Eco-Socialism]
Save the Planet and we Save the World Economy (a title that begs all the questions that need answering properly) [Green Economics]
Aspects of Green Economics [Green Economics]
Green Economics and Sustainable Living 2,310 [Green Economics]
The Case for Green Energy [Green Economics]
Amory Lovins and Natural Capitalism 1,121 [Green Economics]
Real Growth and Qualitative Development 1,461 [Green Economics]
The New Economics of Prosperity 4,213 [Green Economics]
The New Path to Prosperity 3,860 [Green Economics]
ECOLOGY
Heaven’s Performance (Tim Flannery) [Fabric of the Purposive Universe]
The World We Could Have Had 702 [Fabric of the Purposive Universe]
Unchaining the World 3,840 [Age of Ecology]
Balance 1,132 [Fabric of the Purposive Universe]
The Republic in the Age of Moral Ecology
Ecopolis [Green Republicanism]
Climate Politics as the Reconstitution of Public Life 4,087 [Green Republicanism]
The Green Republic [Green Republicanism]
Green Republicanism against Anti-Political Extremism 21, 726 [Green Republicanism]
Coercive Environmental Collectivism advancing the Corporate Form 18, 371 [Green Republicanism]
Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest 30, 232 [Green Republicanism]
Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope 15, 753 [Green Republicanism]
The Logic of Collective Action
Individual Choice, Moral Responsibility and Collective Action - The Improbabilities of Changing Ourselves and Changing the World. 9,396 [Collective wit and will]
Knowledge and Opinion 1,419 [Collective wit and will]
To Be Pieces of the Solution 2,090 [Collective wit and will]
The Field of Practical Reason
Men and Their Machine Gods 1,769 [Alienation]
And who will our saviours be? 208 [Alienation]
Worldchanging [Eco-Praxis]
Political Change the Key to Addressing Climate Change 3,077 [Practical Reason]
Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason 1,526 [Practical Reason]
Politics, Psychology and Physics 5,373 [Practical Reason]
Building the Political Will and Legitimacy for Climate Action 1,135 [Practical Reason]
Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement Walking a Fine Line 581 [Practical Reason]
Climate Accord and the Politics of Friendship 12, 895 [Climate Politics]
Climate Mobilization and Leap 1,068 [Climate Politics]
System Change and Social Transformation 15,090 [System Change]
System Change or Climate Change 1, 646 [System Change]
Tell the Truth – The Capital System is the Problem
Time for a Transformation
The Motivational Economy
Making Facts Existentially Meaningful
Being Human
Climate Crisis as the Opportunity to Become Human
The Theology of Enough
The Transformations of Humanity
Fear and Selfishness and the Environmental Crisis
The End of Nature Without as the End of Nature Within
Estrangement and Extinction
The Shadow of the Future: Witness Against the Beast
Apocalypse
The Dialogical Moment
Climate Change Begins at Home
Enthusing the People (Mumford) 4,056 [Motivations]
The Springs of Action
Why has the campaign to get the public on board with regard to climate change failed? 930 [Motivations]
Inspiring Environmental Action 2,898 [Motivations]
Eco-Praxis 5,643 [Eco-Praxis]
Making Eco-Citizens 3,911 [Green Republicanism]
The Global Civil Society Movement
Fact, Value and Political Ideology 3,825 [fact and value]
Geddes and Mumford 1,236
Moral Concern and Earthcare 4,988 [Moral Ecology]
Here Comes the Flood 4, 430 [existential crisis]
The Existential Truth About Climate Change 7, 562 [existential crisis]
Collective Grief, Love, and Joyful Hope 1,701 [existential crisis]
Should we be Optimistic 3,214
Laudato Si' anniversary For what do we cherish enough to act 12, 152 [Moral Ecology]
Pope Francis, climate change, Marx, and morality 16, 451 [Moral Ecology]
Spiritual Ecology 986 [Moral Ecology]
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action 5,103 [Ecological Virtue]
Fostering Transformative Motivations Within Communities of Practice 2, 494 [Ecological Virtue]
Flourish Well or Abandon Hope
The Failures of Environmental Politics
Naïve Cynicism or Practical Idealism 8,404 [existential crisis]
To walk like ghosts .. or get politically engaged again 2,845 [eco-praxis]
Sic Transit Gloria Civilisation 712 [existential crisis]
A View Out of Dante - Aquinas on Fire in California 4, 034
Fighting Fires 7, 558
Let us not speak of them 8, 064
POLITICS
By Wisdom and Labour 1,447
Hope not Hate 5,173
Against Theopolitical Fundamentalism 15,347
Right-Wing Ideology Trumps Common Purpose 10, 734
Aristo-Populism 2,887
Ending the Politics of Illusion 13, 586
The Need for Institutional and Structural Transformation 25, 130 [System Change]
My Conception of Socialism 10, 407 [Socialism]
Pushing water uphill 4, 769
Remembering Joel Kovel - pioneer eco-socialist, visionary traveller and friend 3, 101 [Eco-Socialism]
Study War No More 2,266
The Document of Citizenship 1,038
Recovering the Ethical Dimensions of Socialism 1, 979 [Socialism]
REPUBLICAN VIRTUE AND THE CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM
Good Government or Representative Government 2,719
Public Happiness and Virtue 1,970
Rational Freedom and Public Happiness 967
Neither yes nor no - against sophist politics 1,847
Pleonexia and Public Life 4,371
Free Choice against State Authority 2,882
Into the Liberal Inferno 5,797
Liberal Impotence, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Violence 3,055
Modern Liberal Society - Immoral and Lawless 2,092
Support and Stability 400
Living in the Sociopathological World 904
The Sick Society 530
A Deeper Freedom 580
Reconstituting Public Life 4, 820
Repersonalisation, Responsibility and Self-Assumed Obligation 6, 815
Responsibility 1, 552
Toleration a virtue 460
Bigotry Speaking Out of Privilege 2,030
Rehabilitating the Ethical Life 4, 078
Virtuous Communities fostering Habits of the Heart 3, 780
The Politics of Love - Affirming Possibilities for a One Nation Green Conservatism 10, 966
Socialism and Liberalism 10, 877
The Quest for Community, Meaning, and Belonging 1, 302
Glastonbury is Rubbish 3, 135
Insidious Ideology 1, 684
RELIGION
If Reason were enough (Kant, ethics, and religion) 4, 016 [religion – the Quest for Meaning]
The House you will Build [religion – Quest for Meaning]
Spinoza and God/Nature 3,160 [religion – Quest for Meaning]
In the image of, but not identical 575
Religion and (the Limits of) Reason 45, 128
Hell is a Human Invention, and a Humanist Reality 1,102
Merry Christmas, Mr Critchley (a few people made the mistake of interfering with my Christmas peace. They’ll not do it again). 30,791
The Death of God and the Abolition of Religion 15,229
Nothing Worldly Lasts Forever - Thoughts on Notre Dame 22, 849
Traditional Cures for Modern Ills 5, 964
Truth Matters and is a Work of Reason (St Thomas Aquinas College) 1, 528
Hell is so Boring! 2,937
Leap of Faith 4, 327
Maritain Not Martian 2,700
When all else has fallen, Love still stands (Pascal) 7805
Bodying Forth Truth with a Transcendent Purpose (Moses Maimonides) 4, 005
God's Invitation to Play 10, 127 [Moral Ecology or Quest for Meaning or literary ecology]
Religion and Reality
How real do you want it? 9, 497
Practices Beyond Perceptions and Conceptions 2,143
Real Reformation 3,298
Love and Knowledge (Aquinas) 2,230
Love and the Just Society (Aquinas) 5, 169
The Survival of the Most Loving 1, 735
Peace with the Creator, Peace with the Creation 12, 015
Biological Necessity, Moral Choice and Climate Crisis 3, 977
Religion, Politics and Peace
An Easter Prayer 4, 903
Peace on Earth 550
The Peace of a Good God 9, 702
Remembrance 7, 762
Who would Jesus vote for? 8, 090
Being Thankful, Expressing Joy
The appetite for joy pervading all creation 6, 174
Viktor Frankl and the Reasons to Choose Life 2, 714
The Submerged Sun of Wonder 1, 883
Erasmus, a life devoted to reason and faith 4, 308
Freedom through Service 336
Giving thanks for the wonder that never ends 4, 200
Valuing What we Make 817
Why we are born, Whence we come, Wither we go 1,241
Being Who You Are 5, 809
All the Wishes in the World 2,225
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A Place of Joy and Learning - and Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Barriers to Actively Seeking Work
Calling St Helens
Christmas in Liverpool (my stay in hospital Christmas 2016)
Fantasy Football
We are all of us much more beautiful than we are told
Goodbye Brian Cant
Liverpool Champions of Europe
Memories of Hillsborough
Truth, Justice and Love – My Hillsborough Statement
Love of Home, Love of Place
The e-Akademeia – my Tutoring Business
To be given yet another life
Top 0.1%
In Praise of My Good Self