Bibliography and Word Count
Materials here can be found on my Academia, Humanities Commons, Being and Place, and Entirely Elvis sites.
I have calculated how many words I have written and published in one form or another since 1995:
Totals
Books
7, 917, 885 words
Dante
1,002,769 words
Marx
1 million estimate
The Public Library as a Community Information Intermediary 100,000 est.
Papers
458,593
Being and Place
2,679,436
Entirely Elvis
757,042
Journal Total
609,237
Irreducibly Polynomial (AS biography)
326,130
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley
Total
188,521
Total
15,117,137 words
To this can be added a study I completed between 1988 and 1990:
The Centuries of Nostradamus – a Historical and Linguistic Analysis
32 lines per page
12 words per line
184 pages per book
7 books
Total
494,592
Total
15,612,265
I cleave to the existence of an anarchic but orderly surplus that is beyond rational comprehension, enclosure, and control. Some call that an excess. If it is, then it is an excess that is the core of our Being. ‘All science begins with classification.’ If we are talking Nature, then the pursuit of rational understanding as command and control can be compared to attempting to drive nails into the beach in an attempt to control the tides of the sea. If we are talking God, then we are talking theology. But no man or woman possessed of a genuine religious sensibility ever made the mistake of seeing theology as a substitute for faith. There is a world beyond human reason, beyond words and symbols. Between you and reality there is world of human construction and mediation, taking a rich variety of forms. Mediation must take place. But the intermediary is not the reality. Whether we approach this reality from the direction of science, philosophy, or religion, we are always talking about our wayward little fingers pointing at the moon.
Words are but a drop in a vast ocean.
As Dante writes, it is to that sea that all things move.
BOOKS
Chaotic Thoughts in Exploration of the Strange Beauty of the Inner Landscape 258 pages 98,754 words
Dante From the Dark Wood to the Eternal Rose with the Heart of Gold (2021) 9,898 words
https://www.academia.edu/49239904/Dante_From_the_Dark_Wood_to_the_Eternal_Rose_with_the_Golden_Heart
FOR TRANSCENDENT STANDARDS AND A SUBSTANTIVE ETHIC OF THE GOOD (2020) 313 126,748
Affirming Democracy and Politics against Techno-Bureaucratic Managerialism (2020) 153 60,887
The Return of Materialist Dialectics: Review of The Return of Nature by John Bellamy Foster (2020) 142 55,895
The Ecology of Good (2020) 435 162,890
Rational Freedom, Transcendent Standards, and the Quest for the Good Life (2020) 261 pages, 77,500 words
The Quest for Belonging, Meaning, and Morality: Morality and Modernity (2020) 701 248,302
The Quest for Meaning: Physics, Purpose, and Seeing God in the Face of the Other (2020) 259 93,807
Bruce Springsteen as a Catholic Troubadour: The Catholic Imagination in the Songs of Bruce Springsteen (2019) 103 34,780
Being and Place: The Dialectics of Catastrophe and Hope: Restoration and Restorying (2019) 415 145,730
The Ecological Comedy: The Case for an Existential Literary Ecology (2019) 264 86, 198
https://www.academia.edu/41206409/The_Ecological_Comedy_The_Case_for_an_Existential_Literary_Ecology
The Economics of Flourishing (2019) 221 75, 549
Climate Rebellion and System Change: Rebellion or Revolution? (2019) 706 264, 821
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE THOUGHT OF ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS (2018) 197 65,006
Social Restitution and Metabolic Restoration in the Thought of Karl Marx (2018) 618 211, 678
Ethics, Essence and Immanence: Marx's Normative Essentialism (2018) 460 160,478
A Home and a Resting Place Homo Religiosus: The Reality of Religious Truth and Experience (2018) 484 171,487
The Climate Commitment: The Need for Common Agreement and Climate Action: Comments on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord (2017) 444 148,313
Tolkien and the Fellowship of all Living Things: The Politics of Proximity, Person, and Place (2017) 374 128,671
HILLSBOROUGH INQUEST 2015 AND CORONER'S SUMMING UP 2016 980 234, 931
Being at One: Making a Home in the Earth's Commonwealth of Virtue (2016) 915 301,671
Cultivating the Morality of the Senses (2016) 141 52,790
Ecological Humanism (2016) 114 40,616
The Fabric of the Purposive Universe (2016) 144 52,868
Being at One (2015) 30 7,386
The Secret People: Liverpool Pop Music from 1980 Onwards (2015) 211 49,984
Lewis Mumford, Civic Environmentalism and Ecological Regionalism (2014) 112 34,996
THE HILLSBOROUGH FOOTBALL DISASTER 25 YEARS ON A personal reflection (2014) 76 28,066
Aquinas, Morality and Modernity. The Search for the Natural Moral Law and the Common Good (2013) 532 174,756
Dante: The Living Hope (2013) 462 124,817
The Common Ground vol 1: Global Heating (2013) 269 78,928
https://www.academia.edu/3202987/The_Common_Ground_vol_1_Global_Heating
The Common Ground vol 2 Political Ecology (2013) 213 64,176
The Common Ground vol 3 Moral Ecology (2013) 219 67,874
Immanence, Transcendence, and Essence: The Dialectics of Progress (2013) 373 121,828
Being and Knowing: A Thomist Reading of Immanuel Kant (2013) 307 100,738
Dante’s Enamoured Mind (2013) 462 124,817
Politics, Planetary Engineering, and Environmentalism: The Politics of Gaia (2012) 371 130,328
Of Gods and Gaia: Men as Gods Gambling with Gaia (2012) 954 342,097
Being and Place: Reason, Nature, and Society 73 15,755
LEWIS MUMFORD AND THE ARCHITECTONICS OF ECOLOGICAL CIVILISATION (2012) 465 150,817
Kant's Natural Teleology and Moral Praxis (2012) 86 29,192
In Search of Ecopolis: The Political and Philosophical Principles of Social Ecology (2011) 322 112,465
The Coming Ecological Revolution: The Principles and Politics of a Social and Moral Ecology (2011) 653 225,432
From Green Principles to Politics (2011) 189 64,868
Philosophising through the Eye of the Mind: Philosophy as Ethos and Praxis (2010) 411 153,758
Reason as the Realisation of Nature: An Excursus on Philosophy, Natural Law and Ecology (2010) 186 64,741
Kant: The Ethics of Rational Nature (2007) 188 64,804
Spinoza and the Rule of Reason (2007) 102 39,596
The Ecological Communism of William Morris (2006) 117 38,688
Lewis Mumford and the Search for the Harmonious City: The Architectonics of an Ecological Regionalism (2004) 187 65,826
THE CITY OF REASON vol 1 Cities and Citizenship (2004)
THE CITY OF REASON vol 2 The Philosophical Idea of the City (2004)
THE CITY OF REASON vol 3 Universitas: The City from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (2004)
THE CITY OF REASON vol 4 The Rationalisation of the City (2004)
THE CITY OF REASON vol 5 The Economic Concept of the City (2004)
THE CITY OF REASON vol 6 The City as Social Movement (2004)
THE CITY OF REASON vol 7 The Ecological Concept of the City (2004)
The City of Reason (2004) 1350 459,259
ROUSSEAU: AUTONOMY, AUTHENTICITY AND AUTHORITY (2003) 245 90,307
Recovering the Meta-Narrative of the Good City: Manchester as a Post-Industrial City (2003) 189 63,757
Critical Studies in Rational Freedom (2001) 405 150,416
Marx, Reason and Freedom: Communism, Rational Freedom and Socialised Humanity (2001) 1205 383,707
Commune Democracy and the Associative Public: Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy (1999) 434 148,706
Materialist Dialectics : Praxis and the Society-Nature Interchange (1997) 1324 421,913
Marx and the Recovery of the Political (1997) 441 166,382
The Thought of Karl Marx (1997) 14,675
The Proletarian Public: The Practice of Proletarian Self-Emancipation (1996) 557 180,180
INDUSTRY AND EUROPE - PROBLEMS AND UNCERTAINTIES IN A GLOBAL ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT vol 1 The Integration of the European Community (1995)
INDUSTRY AND EUROPE vol 2 The Social Market (1995)
INDUSTRY AND EUROPE Pt 3 Transnational Monopoly Capitalism (1995)
INDUSTRY AND EUROPE Pt 4 The Economics of Peace, Freedom and Justice (1995)
Industry and Europe: Problems and Uncertainties in a Global Economic Environment 762 269,879
7, 837 484
Philosophy as Projection – In Search of Sensible Transcendence 347 118,487
Dante
Music and Metaphysics 665 pages, 202,209 words
Politics and Ethics 523 177,059
The Comedy 1,100 319,575
Dante’s Dream of Rational Freedom 658 229,466
Walking and Talking with Dante - Endless Love on the Unending Road 227 74,460
3,173 pages 1,002,769 words
8,958,740
There are also one million words at least in my Marx research folders, existing only in print form. There is also a thesis I wrote for the Masters in Library and Information Management, The Public Library as a Community Information Intermediary. I abandoned the thesis as a hopeless vision of the future – computers would win – and the course as boring. But that must be at least another 100,000 words. I think I am entitled to round these numbers up at a perfect 10 million.
PAPERS
Notes on Montesquieu (2019)
THE EARTH AS A COMMON TREASURY FOR ALL (2017) 9,069
Erasmus: Citizen of the World (2016) 51,531
Anne Conway and the Fellowship of All Creatures: Reworking the Western Philosophical Canon (2015) 6,358
Liverpool: City of Life (2015) 9,760
We are One (2014) 8,976
The Shadow of the Future - Witness Against the Beast (2013)
The Visionary Materialism of William Blake (2013) 19,706
The Socratism of Immanuel Kant (2012) 9,907
Kant and Virtue (2012) 10,000
The Brain in a Vat (2011) 6,000
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Aristotle (2011) 6,592
ETHICAL AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM (2011) 3,456
God: Who, What and Where? (2011) 6,286
RATIONALISTS AND EMPIRICISTS (2011) 3,678
Pythagoras and the Harmony in All Things (2011) 10,346
Heaven's Performance: Review of Here on Earth by Tim Flannery (2010)
When the Tank Runs Dry (2010) 2,284
Art as Life, Life as Art (2010) 13,136
Goddesses, Animality, and Nature (2010) 18,297
Why Philosophy (2010) 9,876
Kant and the Architectonics of Reason (2007) 14,979
Rainbow Rising (2006) 8,463
Plato - The Architect of Rational Freedom (2004) 9,412
William Godwin and Political Simplicity (2004) 14,063
The Rational Community of Jurgen Habermas (2004) 5,181
The Stationary State of John Stuart Mill (2004)
Martin Heidegger : Ontology and Ecology (2004)
New Social Movements and the Urban Public Realm (2004)
Rousseau on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind (2003) 10,639
Machiavelli and the Citizen Ideal (2004) 18,535
Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (2003) 2,859
Rousseau : Autonomy and Authority (2003)
Rousseau and the Quest for Human Happiness (2003)
Hegel and the Embodiment of Freedom (2001)
Kant : Reason as the Realisation of Nature (2001) 15,482
The Rational Freedom of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2001) 4,345
Jurgen Habermas and the Rational Utopia (2001) 13,220
The Rational Freedom of Plato and Aristotle (2001) 13,114
Aristotle and the Public Good (1995) 15,052
A Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest (2012) 124 44,966
Eurovision 256 63,025
Total
458,593
Being and Place Posts
PHILOSOPHY
Hearing the Deep Cry of Meaning (Frankl and the quest for meaning) 15,985
Words in-Action (writing as acting). 17,476
A Few of us have Many Eyes (seeing through the mind's eye). 4,271
Scientific and Moral Truth (the fact-value dualism) 34,973
What Place Value in a World of Fact 16,159
Facts, Truths, and Inner Motives 13,250
The Blight of Essentialism Hunting (a defence of essentialist metaphysics). 4,410
Dialectic and Disclosure (teasing out truth). 4,975
Wittgenstein, Bewitchment, and Silence 16,492
Science and Questions of Value, Significance, and Meaning 1,342
The Slenderest Knowledge of the Highest Things (Aquinas and Descartes) 8,565
First Principles and Firm Foundations 2,168
Seeing the Light 3,462
There are No Facts, Only Interpretations 1,573
Total
145,119
Virtue Ethics
The Necessity of Virtue 291
Nature via Nurture 352
A Call to Virtue 2,329
Kant, MacIntyre, Virtue and the Enlightenment project 1,271
Character and the Common Good (MacIntyre and the cultivation of the virtues within the forms of the common life). 2,850
The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre and Lewis Mumford 8,967
Total
16,060
Plato and Aristotle
Pythagoreanism Over Time 903
Socrates and Moral Knowledge 1,239
The Return of Aristotle 2,644
Aristotle's Flourishing 475
Aristotle and the Reenchantment of Nature 3,455
Plato and Democracy 1,913
Plato Theory of Forms 553
Plato, Art, and Eternity 1,255
Plato's Cave, Objective Reality and Morality 848
Aristotle's Flourishing (Edward Feser) 660
Total
13,943
Reason and Reality
Why Philosophy 5,755
The Most Influential Living Philosophers 12,831
Levels of Cognition (the ascent from instinct and desire at the level of immediacy up to reason and intellect). 329
Philosophy and Science 2,327
Being at One 1,602
Being in Touch with Life (Montaigne) 9,670
Between you and reality is a pile of books 1,843
Spectators under Eternity or Participants within the Creative Universe 2,228
Hegel, Objectification and Alienation 671
Reason and Alienation 1,143
Toward Reason existing in Rational Form 4,576
If Reason were enough (Kant, ethics, and religion) 4,044
Spinoza and God/Nature 3,189
Rousseau, Natural Law and Rational Freedom 36,539
The Rational Utopia 498
The Rational Universe, Creative Human Agency and the Logic of Collective Action 4,324
The Whole World Order, against the delusions of separation 16,596
From Core to Infinity (a dialogue on mathematics and creativity) 15,177
Heart, Hand and Head 962
Non-Dualism, the Advaita and Dvaita 5,319
The Game of Life: Response to Chess as Applied to Feminism 5,619
Alternatives from out of the Heideggerian Corpus 267
Superintelligence (developing the relation between truth, politics, and people). 8,700
The Religious Roots of Rational Freedom 688
Materialist Dialectics 4,384
The Return of Materialist Dialectics 2,682
Total
151,965
POETRY, ART, AND LITERATURE
Dante and Marx 7,529
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise 17,867
Dante's Sweet Symphony 5,224
Fire and Ice where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth… 8,068
For lovers of William Blake – because he kept the divine vision in time of trouble 2,406
The Unveiling of a Gravestone to William Blake 1,024
The Light Within (Blake and the awakening of the soul against the Megamachine). 4,245
In The World of Waldo Williams (the work of the great poet of the Preseli Mountains, Wales). 5,105
Marc Chagall - art as a state of soul 555
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo 3,681
Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Place (falling in love outwards). 4,625
Poetry and the Moral Sense of Place 2,204
The Poetry of Earth (Can poetry save the Earth?) 6,033
Ruins (the finite and the infinite). 808
Samuel Palmer Mysterious Moonlit Dreams 415
Song of the Earth (Earthcare as soulcare). 830
The Imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma (In Praise of Ursula Le Guin) 3,764
Natural Anarchy (Tolkien's mythos vs neurotic power worshippers and controllers). 2,406
Ecopoetics: Disclosing the Hidden God in Nature 2,442
Finding Meaning through Metaphor (Metaphors grow the mind, feed the soul, and deepen empathy for the planet). 1,749
Tolkien and the Ethics of Enchantment 5,298
William Morris and Eco-Criticism 180
The Beautiful Madness of Don Quixote 2,193
The Golden Bough 1,951
Dante's Sweet Symphony - Organisation of Materials – book outlines – 13,763
Dante's Journey - The Sweet Symphony of Paradise 13,652
Dante's Sweet Symphony - vol 1 music 623
Dante and Shakespeare 2,109
Dante Integral 9,842
Total
130,591
Gerrard Winstanley
Gerrard Winstanley and the Wealth of the Commons and the Weal of the Commoners 7,187
Love, Liberty and Law 31,364
Spirit, Reason, Nature, Freedom 42,000
The True Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley 644
The Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley 81,887
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley 41,620
Total
204,702
ECONOMICS
Economics, Ecology and Ethics 2,869
Markets and Morality: Where do public virtues come from? 2,827
Sovereignty, Subsidiarity, Democratic Will (Political Control and the Globalization of Economic Relations) 22,776
The Economics of the Good (Adam Smith) 9,264
Marx, ecological rift and the social metabolic order 6,920
Aspects of Green Economics 6,710
Green Economics and Sustainable Living 2,339
The Case for Green Energy 578
Amory Lovins and Natural Capitalism 1,150
The Madness of Capitalist Reason (the demand that Reason take rational social form). 3,991
Reform and Reformation (the case for social transformation). 5,261
Real Growth and Qualitative Development 1,490
The New Economics of Prosperity (the qualitative dimension of wealth, exposing the delusions of quantitative measures) 4,242
The New Path to Prosperity 4,928
We have to learn to Collaborate and Share (Stephen Hawking – we need to rethink our attitude toward wealth). 1,047
Comm- 149
Socially Useful Production (a New Lucas Plan). 3,208
Workers of all lands unite - and build the cooperative commonwealth 2,968
The Economics of Purpose (E.F. Schumacher and R.H. Tawney). 3,096
Shrug and Move On (Ayn Rand). 2,070
Converging Crises show that we need an Entirely New Economic System 2,900
total
90,794
ECOLOGY
Heaven’s Performance (A review of Here on Earth by Tim Flannery). 8,259
The World We Could Have Had 730
Unchaining the World 3,870
Balance 1,161
Climate Change and Global Heating
Global Heating – a Guide to the Arguments 1,764
Can Climate Crisis be Avoided? 3,692
Teetering on the Brink of Climate Catastrophe 961
Seven Years to Save the Planet ...(Ourselves ...) 2,580
The Final Curtain, or the Need for a Biospheric Politics 3,294
Eco-Catastrophe in Our Lifetimes 4,676
Giddens’ Paradox 1,097
Countdown to 2017 4,200
Social Cost of Climate Change too Low 66
The Scream Piercing Through Nature 2.083
Ocean Acidification and Mass Extinction 1,257
Eco-Catastrophe in the Oceans 4,676
The Missing Science of Ian Plimer 6,859
The National Climate Assessment 2,936
The Fog of Denial 4,841
Human Link to Climate Change Stronger than ever 982
Politics and the Climate Countdown 965
Countdown to Eco-Catastrophe 1,295
50 Months Left to Tackle Climate Change 940
Warming Seas and Vanishing Fish 866
All that is Solid Melts into Air – and Water 3,208
We have changed the face of the Planet 2,762
Arctic Sea Ice Melts to its Lowest Recorded Level 1,128
Climate Change – the Undeniable Truth 2,468
Sceptical Scientists see the Light after Climate Change Study 1,289
Best evidence yet for Global Heating 939
Changes: Climate Change, System Change, Civilizational Change, Self-Change 9,667
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and Common Good 2,295
Tell the Truth - The Capital System is the Problem 1,633
Climate Politics
Pure Wind, or the Need for an International Green Infrastructure 1,127
Why are we letting the Big Emitters Control our Future? 3,196
Sceptical Environmentalism 4,558
Dupes, Idiots, and Climate Change Deniers 2,710
Lies, Damned Lies, and Journalism 12,149
Nuclear Nihilism 9,026
Public Responsibility – Time to Share the Burden of Proof 4,167
Paris Climate Talks doomed to failure 554
The Climate Commitment 7,255
Earth to Trump 3,039
Ignoring climate injustice is not a viable survival strategy 4,147
Pentagon chief says climate change threatens national security 1,360
High Politics and Green Truths (the need for ‘Green truths’ cross the bridge into the field of practical reason and engage with the people). 6,810
Total
149,541
The Republic in the Age of Moral Ecology
Ecopolis (Self-Regulation in the Eco-community) 12,071
Metaphysical Recovery and Reconstruction (giving practical content to the terms of ethical discourse) 7,357
Ecological Virtue (Stephen Emmott and the need for behavioural – and societal – change). 2,438
The Age of Moral Ecology (a society of doers, a society of volunteers, a participatory social order in which individuals act well by virtue of dispositions rather than obedience to directives). 4,632
Climate Politics as the Reconstitution of Public Life 4,116
The End (the reaction of alien nature as the return of the repressed). 1,680
The House you will Build (Isaiah's exhilarating vision of social and ecological harmony, a new Jerusalem of justice and joy). 3,613
The Green Republic (The Republic in an Age of Social Ecology) 7,315
Green Republicanism against Anti-Political Extremism (a critique of the authoritarian, elitist, and coercive implications of the politics of non-politics). 21,696
A Civic Environmentalism and a Moral Ecology 11,222
A Rational Environmentalism (a defence of rational freedom against scientism and naturalism). 6,462
Total
82,602
The Logic of Collective Action
System Change or Climate Change 1,675
Individual Choice, Moral Responsibility and Collective Action - The Improbabilities of Changing Ourselves and Changing the World. 9,425
Knowledge and Opinion 1,448
To Be Pieces of the Solution 2,120
Commoning Together 2,850
Reclaiming Politics from Game Playing (the restoration of politics to its ancient meaning of creative self-actualisation within public life). 6,069
The Critique of Enlightened Self-Interest 2,388
Total
25,975
The Field of Practical Reason
Men and Their Machine Gods 1,798
And who will our saviours be? (the need for moral capacity as well as technological capacity). 236
Save the Planet and we Save the World Economy 2,603
Worldchanging 2,960
Political Change the Key to Addressing Climate Change 3,119
Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason (the need to connect scientific knowledge and technological know-how with ethics and politics within the motivational economy of human beings).2,206
Politics, Psychology and Physics 5,401
Building the Political Will and Legitimacy for Climate Action 1,164
Climate Accord and the Politics of Friendship 12,924
Climate Mobilization and Leap 1,097
Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement Walking a Fine Line 611
Coercive Environmental Collectivism advancing the Corporate Form (for a genuine public community against environmental philosopher kings and rescue squads). 32,526
Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest 30,487
Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope 15,787
System Change and Social Transformation 17,919
Re-politicizing the Environment 2,832
The Price of Political Deficiency (being alert to the dangers of the corporate appropriation of the environmental cause). 3,393
From Green Gloom to Green Growth 21,287
Extinction Pacification (against an anti-politics of climate truth that puts politics and people on ice). 12,809
Seeing Through the Encroachment of the Environmental Megamachine 38,624
Less a Forest than a Thicket of Greenwash 3,348
The Unity of Social Formation and Character Formation 1,735
The Dangers of Corporate Climate Diversion, Conversion, and Perversion 3,877
Climate Mobilization and Transformation 6,565
Classless and Hapless 9,081
Against Environmentalist Non-Politics 13,220
Climate Rebellion - Going Beyond the Default Options 1,366
Exposing the 'non-political' politics of the 'classless' class 3,806
Taking Practical Reason Seriously 3,445
Against Homo Superior 3,923
Naturism, Romanticism, and Technocracy 2,298
Total
262,477
Making Facts Existentially Meaningful
Being Human 282
Climate Crisis as the Opportunity to Become Human 1,248
The Theology of Enough 3,363
The Transformations of Humanity 3,096
Fear and Selfishness and the Environmental Crisis 577
The End of Nature Without as the End of Nature Within 3,458
Estrangement and Extinction 1,583
The Shadow of the Future: Witness Against the Beast 5,943
Apocalypse 4,875
The Dialogical Moment 1,555
Climate Change Begins at Home 856
Reformation Against Abstraction 2,883
Total
29,713
The Springs of Action
Why has the campaign to get the public on board with regard to climate change failed 957
Inspiring Environmental Action 2,926
Eco-Praxis 5,672
Making Eco-Citizens 3,940
The Global Civil Society Movement 2,958
Fact, Value and Political Ideology 3,854
Geddes and Mumford (large views in the abstract and the concrete: unity in diversity). 1,265
Moral Concern and Earthcare 5,017
Here Comes the Flood (dispossession, denaturalisation, and dehumanisation). 4,459
The Existential Truth About Climate Change 7,591
Collective Grief, Love, and Joyful Hope 1,729
Flourish Well or Abandon Hope 9,180
Should we be Optimistic 3,243
Laudato Si' anniversary (For what do we cherish enough to act). 12,181
Pope Francis, climate change, Marx, and morality 16,480
Spiritual Ecology 1,015
Ecological Restoration as a Restorying 6,807
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action5,137
Fostering Transformative Motivations Within Communities of Practice 2,526
God's Invitation to Play (The Beauty that lights the path to the Truth and Goodness of the World) 10,161
God and Nature Come Alive in Relationships (Spinoza's God/Nature as only half a God). 2,462
Communalism and Democratic Confederalism - Reflections on Murray Bookchin 8,314
Cae Mabon - a Welsh Shangri-La 3,102
To Care for the Other (the need to bridge the empathy gap). 4,386
For the Healing (the need to bridge divides and build commonalities.) 5,274
Reasons, Emotions, and Motivations 4,846
The Ecology of Hope 6,008
Total
141,491
The Failures of Environmental Politics
A View Out of Dante - Aquinas on Fire in California 4,073
Fighting Fires 7,398
Naïve Cynicism or Practical Idealism (the need for a politics of practical and active hope). 8,433
Let us not speak of them (against self-perpetuating, self-consuming cycles of climate despair). 8,105
To walk like ghosts .. or get politically engaged again 2,874
Sic Transit Gloria Civilisation 741
Dangers and Wrong Paths (The paradox of Enlightenment - modernity's downfall as lying in its advance). 9,978
Looking after the Human Environment (the need to pay attention to the health and quality of the human environment as well as the natural environment). 4,711
Total
46,313
POLITICS
By Wisdom and Labour 1,475
Hope not Hate 5,202
Against Theopolitical Fundamentalism 15,376
Right-Wing Ideology Trumps Common Purpose 10,763
Aristo-Populism (beyond a liberalism that is degenerating into corrupt elites and angry mobs). 2,916
Ending the Politics of Illusion (the impossibilities of politics when we talk ‘at’ rather than ‘to’ each other). 13,615
Enthusing the People (Lewis Mumford) 4,085
The Need for Institutional and Structural Transformation 25,159
My Conception of Socialism 11,215
Pushing water uphill (speaking for the people who were left behind – as one of them). 4,798
Remembering Joel Kovel (pioneer eco-socialist, visionary traveller and friend). 3,130
Study War No More 2,277
The Document of Citizenship 1,067
Recovering the Ethical Dimensions of Socialism 2,013
Time for a Transformation 10,100
It's Called Socialism 389
The Bare Faced Lies of the Rich and Powerful and their Lickspittles 8,111
The Eco-Socialism we Choose 2,097
Reclaiming Socialism, Reframing Conservatism 2,207
Revaluing Labour: Reflections on the St Helens Workers' Memorial, or the Peter Critchley Gardens of Earthly and Heavenly Delights 4,494
Rebuilding Labour's Foundations: Resolidifying 1 3,006
The Labour Metaphysic and the Redemptive Myth of Wealth: Resolidifying 2 4,873
Total
138,370
REPUBLICAN VIRTUE AND THE CRITIQUE OF LIBERALISM
Good Government or Representative Government 2,748
Public Happiness and Virtue 1,976
Rational Freedom and Public Happiness 996
Neither yes nor no - against sophist politics 1,876
Pleonexia and Public Life (against the moneyed nihilism corrupting public life). 4,400
Free Choice against State Authority (for genuine common force as against the external collective force generated by subjective choice). 2,910
Into the Liberal Inferno (the rise of an illiberal liberalism) 5,826
Liberal Impotence, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal Violence 3,084
Modern Liberal Society - Immoral and Lawless 2,748
Support and Stability 427
Living in the Sociopathological World 933
The Sick Society 2,329
A Deeper Freedom 608
Reconstituting Public Life 4,859
Reconstituting Public Life through Socialist Transformation 2,771
Repersonalisation, Responsibility and Self-Assumed Obligation 6,844
Responsibility 1,581
Toleration a virtue? 489
Bigotry Speaking Out of Privilege 2,275
Rehabilitating the Ethical Life 4,107
Virtuous Communities fostering Habits of the Heart 3,810
The Politics of Love - Affirming Possibilities for a One Nation Green Conservatism 11,005
Socialism and Liberalism 14,403
The Quest for Community, Meaning, and Belonging 1,335
Glastonbury is Rubbish 3,170
Insidious Ideology 1,719
Restoring the Moral Compass 4,682
Emerging from Under the Shadow of Modernity 21,306
Liberty and Licence 482
Thoughts on Tocqueville, Democracy, and Transcendent Standards 9,458
A Society of Idiots 8,930
Beyond Libertarianism 6,887
Goodbye to Statues, Goodbye to you 33,360
For Civility, Public Life, and Reason 26,133
A Positive and Lasting Peace in the Presence of Justice 25,008
Free to Choose 4,026
Restoring Trust and Connection in a New Collaborative Social Order 2,523
Donald Trump and the International Institutional Order 8,302
Liberty as Licence Destroys Freedom 6,573
Bullies, Liars, and Trolls 3,545
Classless Politics in a Class Society 2,800
Socialism or Barbarism: Liberal Centrism Cannot Hold 2,565
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary 'Left' Liberates the Rich and Powerful 6,587
Rational Freedom: Establishing Autonomy and Authority in Balance 10,002
Redeeming Empty Promises 21,918
Beyond the Endless Cycle of Power/Resistance 5,291
Total
299,606
RELIGION
Theism and Atheism
In the image of, but not identical 604
Religion and (the Limits of) Reason 44,556
Hell is a Human Invention, and a Humanist Reality 1,131
Merry Christmas, Mr Critchley 30,820
The Death of God and the Abolition of Religion 15,258
Nothing Worldly Lasts Forever - Notre Dame 22,897
Traditional Cures for Modern Ills 6,004
Truth Matters and is a Work of Reason (Aquinas College 1,557
Hell is so Boring! 2,972
Leap of Faith 4,362
The Inversion of the Moral Law 4,969
Christian Democracy in the Collision of Moral and Economic Imperatives 1,984
God and Nature exist in Relationships 2,462
Pope Francis' Letter to Global Popular Movements 2,327
Catholic Social Action and Internationalism 5,924
Reinstating the Marginalized, and casting off those who work to keep people marginalized 14,178
Total
162,005
Religion and Reality
How real do you want it? 9,526
Practices Beyond Perceptions and Conceptions 2,172
Real Reformation 3,293
Love and Knowledge 2,259
Love and the Just Society 5,198
The Survival of the Most Loving 1,764
Peace with the Creator, Peace with the Creation 12,001
Biological Necessity, Moral Choice and Climate Crisis 4,006
Maritain the Martian 2,737
When all else has fallen, love still stands 8,825
Total
51,788
Politics and Peace
An Easter Prayer 4,932
Peace on Earth 579
The Peace of a Good God 9,731
Remembrance 7,803
Who would Jesus vote for? 8,118
Being Thankful, Expressing Joy
The appetite for joy pervading all creation 6,202
Viktor Frankl and the Reasons to Choose Life 2,739
The Little Village Church with the Big Heart 1,492
The Submerged Sun of Wonder 1,912
Erasmus, a life devoted to reason and faith 4,337
Freedom through Service 364
Giving thanks for the wonder that never ends 4,228
Valuing What we Make 846
Why we are born, Whence we come, Wither we go 1,270
Being Who You Are 5,837
The Love that Seeketh not its Own 13,695
Bodying Forth Truth with a Transcendent Purpose 4,041
I Hope for Nothing. I Fear Nothing. I am Free 753
Moving Thoughts 1,826
A well-paced and non-surprising environment 2,408
Kafka and Life's Journey 821
If This is the End 3,944
Taking Care 1,796
Seeing the Light 3,462
Total
61,973
COVID-19
The Politics of the Pathetic 3,415
US' Global Reputation Hits Rock Bottom 2,462
The Political Attempts to Depoliticize Crises and Delegitimize Critical Voices 5,124
Coronavirus and Class 2,500
Coronavirus Consensus, Class, and Contradictions 1,652
CORONAV_R_S - Breaking and Remaking Chains 3,852
Coronavirus cases and deaths - the culpability of the UK government 47
Coronavirus, Complicity, and Culpability 5,841
If Trump were Captain of the Titanic 2,585
Lost Lives 592
Plandemic Pandumbic 3,714
The Class Politics of Covid-19 10,135
The UK Sleepwalked into Disaster 1,103
Toxic Trump 10,916
Trump, Truth, Politics, Propaganda 3,037
Total
56,974
REFLECTIONS
All the Wishes in the World 2,254
Muhammad Ali – Champion of Peace, Freedom, Racial Equality and Social Justice 2,313
Old Friends and New - Stan and Ollie 7,173
Tatty-Bye, Dear Old Doddy, Tatty-Bye 21,124
All Our Days (Jack Charlton) 1,710
Lost Content 213
Never Say Goodbye 187
The Simple Joys of the Jam Butty 2,504
Total
37,478
MUSIC
Adieu l'artiste - Charles Aznavour 5,226
Elvis as a Musical Education 5,016
Eurovision Song Contest Top Twenty Five 2,738
Happy Birthday Jacques Brel 2,272
Miles to Go is Miles Away 8,955
My Favourite Christmas Songs 16,700
Paddy McAloon - Pop's Great Lost Voice 2,206
Reflections on Françoise Hardy's Personne d’Autre 10,110
Revolutionary Spirit - Liverpool 1976-1988 4,811
Solid Air, The Soul of Romantic Melodies 21,757
Françoise Hardy Discography 8,346
Charles Aznavour - Select Discography 1,226
Françoise Hardy in Manchester! 2,902
Sammes Old Song 3,583
The Desperate Ones 281
Françoise Hardy Best Songs 3,348
The Sweeping Seductive Melodies of Ennio Morricone 2,159
The Woman with a Million Unwritten Poems in Her Voice 2,382
My Andrea Bocelli Collection (My personal guide) 3,191
Love and Light, Hope and Healing: Andrea Bocelli's 'Music for Hope' 1,100
The Sweet, the Sad, and the Sentimental 4,860
Colin Vearncombe - a Wonderful Life 2,588
Total
115,757
MY PHILOSOPHICAL WORK
Forthcoming Work in Being and Place 7,950
Being and Place - A lean and logical plan and outline
Being and Place - Writing and Publishing Plan 624
Being and Place Outlines 7,420
Being at One 3,089
My latest work 1,159
An Editing and Publishing Plan 2,490
Significant and Meticulous 428
Dispensing My Mind 921
The revolution will neither be monetized nor academically peer reviewed ... and neither will I 6,726
Total
30,813
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Name Your Park 1,557
A Place of Joy and Learning - and Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 4,210
Barriers to Actively Seeking Work 10,035
Calling St Helens (my granddad in Burma during WWII) 2,531
Christmas in Liverpool (the story of my heart attack) 1,924
Fantasy Football 1,567
We are all of us much more beautiful than we are told 3,604
Goodbye Brian Cant 3,062
Liverpool Champions of Europe 7,482
Memories of Hillsborough 4,270
Truth, Justice and Love – My Hillsborough Statement 813
Love of Home, Love of Place 10,033
The e-Akademeia – aims of my Tutoring Business 923
To be given yet another life 1,021
Top 0.1% 6,407
In Praise of My Good Self 13,018
Total
72,457
Posts from 2021
The Church and Housing 4,377
What are the Worst Years for an Aspie? 2,429
Writing Dante 9,177
Dante’s Politics of Love 3,119
Llandudno Ladies 1,657
Imagine Religion - and Politics 2,670
Men as Gods 644
Dante's Sweet Symphony of Paradise (the musical volume of my 4 vol Dante) 623
Politics is much more difficult than Physics 883
The Final Word on Hillsborough : Unjust to the Bitter End 5,254
To Live in Truth and Love 2,726
Educating the Whole Person 666
Looking for the Heart of the Heartless World 3238
The Corruption of Science, Politics, and Ethics 1903
Know Thy Enemy 505
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921-2021 2424
To be God's partners in Creation 1199
Pushback Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart 3838
Editing the Endless Love on the Unending Road 9,713
From the Dark Forest to the Eternal Rose - Editing Dante 5,197
Dante Update 814
Free Speech and Good Speech 1,671
Observations on current controversies over Free Speech 3,777
Transcendent Standards or a world of pure contingency and arbitrariness 1,496
Dante and the Baptistry 2,238
Free Speech 2,585
La Question 846
Dante : Love and Justice over Fear and Hatred 8,559
Beyond Symptoms 3,402
Biblical truth? 455
Make Orwell Fiction Again 4,507
Conspirituality: a Modern Distemper 3,395
Dante The Poet of Reality 1,648
Dante the Christian Humanist 2,404
Thoughts on Dante 3,975
Existential Self and Society 2illn,562
Dante's Symphony – explorations 4,209
Teasing Out Truth: A Word in Praise of Sophism 5,133
The Nativity as the Rebirth of Hope 2,790
Industry and Europe - Industrial Strategy in a Globalised Economic Environment 1,985
Rational Freedom: Reconciling Autonomy and Authority 10,003
Track List for the Billy Maher Show Radio Merseyside as the 14th December 2019 became the 15th 265
The Peter Critchley Design for Health and Happiness 2,777
Total
133,738
(The ‘Design for Health and Happiness’ is a much shortened – and censored - version of a more detailed document entitled ‘Arteries and Extremities.’ That document contains all the physiological descriptions and explanations. 27,191 and growing daily as a health journal)
Total
27,191
Being and Place Total
2,679,436
ENTIRELY ELVIS
ELVIS' GREATEST MOVIE SONGS 1,240
For LP Fans Only 2,534
Elvis’ Worst Song 4,639
ELVIS MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS RANKED 1,533
A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE ELVIS MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS 4,478
The Identity of Elvis 2,018
The Best Film Game 992
ELVIS THE LIBERATOR AND INTEGRATOR 1,969
NAILING THE LIE THAT ELVIS PRESLEY WAS RACIST 6,854
THE LIE OF THE LAND 8,808
LOOKING BACK, BRINGING IT BACK 1,078
THE ALTERNATE 1971 ELVIS CHRISTMAS ALBUM 1,313
ELVIS CHRISTMAS DUETS - A REVIEW 2,446
THE TWENTY ELVIS CHRISTMAS SONGS 2,717
ELVIS SINGLES, EPS, AND LPS DISCOGRAPHY IN ORDER OF RELEASE 112,475
Guitar Man 5,782
For the Asking 6,007
THE GRACELAND RECORDINGS OF 1976 2,233
GOODBYE TO LOVE 7,651
ELVIS FOLK 7,008
FRANÇOISE SAYS ELVIS IS WORTH EVERY FRANC 938
ESSENTIAL ELVIS: A GUIDE TO THE ALBUMS OF ELVIS PRESLEY 14,384
"OUR" MUSIC - WHY RAY CHARLES IS WRONG ABOUT ELVIS 1,759
ELVIS PRESLEY THE HEART SINGER 224
THE ELVIS CHRISTMAS SEASON BBC TV 1977 2,711
GUILTY PLEASURES IN THE ELVIS CATALOGUE 5,748
AN APPRECIATION OF THE MUSICAL LEGACY OF THE ELVIS SIXTIES SOUNDTRACKS 13,525
ELVIS - THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS, AND OUGHT NOW TO BE 2,240
HALLELUJAH - LEONARD COHEN IS A 'HUGE FAN' OF ELVIS 6,690
TREAT ME NICE 6,218
THE LAST FAREWELL 3,943
AS LONG AS A MAN HAS THE STRENGTH TO DREAM 7,952
UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO 2,800
ELVIS SONGS A TO Z 12,342
COLLECTING ELVIS ON VINYL IN THE 1990s 23,203
ELVIS' GOLDEN RECORDS 6,189
OBSERVATIONS ON THE FILMS OF ELVIS PRESLEY 40,241
ELVIS PRESLEY DISCOGRAPHY IN RECORDING SESSION ORDER 7,683
MY YOUNG DAYS AS AN ELVIS COLLECTOR 19,377
ESSENTIAL ELVIS 29,566
ELVIS PRESLEY DISCOGRAPHY 10,104
ELVIS AS A MUSICAL EDUCATION 5,162
ELVIS' 60 GREATEST 2,022
ELVIS ALL OVER THE WORLD 1,081
THE SWEET THE SAD AND THE SENTIMENTAL 4,911
ELVIS SONG LIST WITH LYRICS 115,631
THE DEFINITIVE ELVIS PRESLEY 12,900
THE ALBUMS OF ELVIS PRESLEY IN ORDER OF RELEASE 56,926
Total
600,251
Elvis the Book
ELVIS THE VOICE 20,570
ELVIS THE DREAMER 5,427
ELVIS THE INFLUENCER 22,812
ELVIS THE IMPACT 6,232
ELVIS THE EDUCATOR 5,874
ELVIS THE INTEGRATOR AND INNOVATOR 8,693
ELVIS THE LIBERATOR 4,359
ELVIS THE APPROPRIATOR? 4,207
ELVIS THE INTEGRATOR 9,475
NAILING THE LIE THAT ELVIS WAS RACIST ONCE AND FOR ALL 10,839
ELVIS TRIBUTES 12,373
ELVIS THE OPERA SINGER WITH BLUES AND SOUL 22,157
ELVIS AND OTHER KINGS .. AND QUEENS 2,908
ELVIS THE DEMOCRAT AND THE DEMOCRATIZER 3,125
ELVIS THE CITIZEN - ELVIS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD 3,451
ELVIS THE ACTOR 1,297
ELVIS AND COMIC CONNECTIONS 614
ELVIS THE PERFORMER 2,600
ELVIS THE SEEKER 2,336
ELVIS THE PERSON AND ELVIS THE ICON 4,827
SEX, DEATH, AND THE LIFE THAT COMES AFTER 2,615
Total
156,791
Total Elvis
757,042
Llandudno Journal 44,495 (growing daily)
Lockdown Diary 2 (from November 4 2020) 375,495
Lockdown Diary 1 (to August 2020) 189,247
Journal Total
609,237
Totals
Books
10,000,000
Papers
458,593
Being and Place
2,679,436
Entirely Elvis
757,042
Journal Total
609,237
Irreducibly Polynomial (AS biography)
Total
326,130
The Peaceable Commonwealth of Gerrard Winstanley
Total
188,521
Total
15,018,959
The next two items are estimates. With respect to the journal, the words per line and lines per page vary over the decade. I have 67 books in my possession, with a significant number back home (30 or more). With respect to the Elvis manuscript, there are more than two thousand A4 printed pages, single line spacing.
1990s Journal
34 lines per page
10 words per line
120 pages per book
100 books
Total
4,000,000
Elvis manuscript
2,000 plus pages, 42 lines per page, 9 words per line.
Total
756,000.
Personally, I think we could round this up to 5,000,000.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I can account for having written 15,018,959 words. There is a cold, clinical precision to numbers that somehow underestimates their warm existential truth. So I shall put it, fittingly enough, into words – that’s fifteen million words. Then there are the 1990s journals and the Elvis manuscript. I think I can safely claim to have written 20 million words. And this is not including my work at various colleges and universities. I was a prodigious note-taker at every academic institution I attended. I also filled folders full of computer commands.
Calculating from 1995, the appearance of the first written work recorded here (Industry and Europe), I have written – and published in one form or another - on average 800,000 words a year. And I’m not sure whether than is an impressive achievement or a profound illness. A friend, a considerable author in his own right, asked me where, precisely, my work on natural rights is contained. He likes my work and wanted to read more deeply. In all honesty, I have no idea where that work is, and so ignored his request. He probably thought me rude and lost interest. The truth is that I just flow without control.
All that time could have been productively spent doing other things, not alone, but with others. That said, the work I have done is, for the most part, of a high standard. My biggest criticism would be of those parts which can seem to force and bend conclusions to fit political commitments (x amount of years to save the world, actions y and z as necessary etc. ‘Necessity’ is a poor argument if the need for appreciation is neglected).
I fear that the Winstanley book will now see the light of day only in outlines, sketches, and fragments - as written. I think my Dante book will be my last academic work, should it ever see light of day, before I write at length, and in depth, of the the autistic symphony that has been my life. My very best book may well prove to be my last - my autistobiography. It has an appropriate title.
Irreducibly Polynomial (AS biography)
AQ tests 6,483
Asperger syndrome notes 29,337
Checklist 418
Being Aspicious 337
Asperger Syndrome in adults means 2,500
Checklist Short course 8,520
Late Diagnosis of Asperger Spectrum Disorder 34,691
Traits and symptoms commonly associated with AS 1,844
Autistobiography 38,104
Comments and Observations 3,066
comments on Quotes about AS 9,863
Did Alan Turing have Asperger syndrome 2,214
Personal statement 1,680
Plant 2,109
Strange Power 2,800
The untameable is the unnameable 11,788
Witcraft 7,034
Sterile Virtu 8,568
Detachment 6,456
Underground War 2,100
Profession of Faith 6,370
Simone Weil The sacred core 12,393
Disinfectants 7,344
Pictures and Books 7,544
History 6,736
The Myths of the Hopeless 6,726
Asperger written 11,247
Asperger notes 1,352
Recovering Socrates commitment to the polity 2,732
Rauol Spifame 13,088
Spifame 9,368
The greatest lesson 15,392
The saddest book ever written – Don Quixote as AS 14,455
AS Notes and Observations 7,221
The unnameable and the untameable 6,789
This is the saddest book ever written 12,766
Asperger quotes from memes 4,695
Total
326,130
Winstanley
A common treasury for all fin 15,598
Brave community The Digger Movement in the English Revolution 6,555
Eduard Bernstein Cromwell and Communism 11,185
Gerrard Winstanley and the Republic of Heaven 24,426
Imagination and Reason 245
McIntosh Monbiot and Winstanley 3,578
Reading on Winstanley 2,626
Republic of equals 11,508
Tawney and Weber 1,104
The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley 2,150
The Religion of Gerrard Winstanley and Digger Communism ed 41,425
what do we know of Winstanley's life 2,391
winstanley and blake notes 3,296
Winstanley and Communalism 11,600
Winstanley and socialism 12,138
winstanley, george, marx 3,577
Winstanley 11,645
Radicalism and Reverence phil structure 3,456
Radicalism and Reverence structure 2,335
Radicalism and Reverence 2,622
Winstanley, Spirit Reason and Freedom 1,182
Winstanley's Communitarian Enlightenment 1,343
Gerrard Winstanley and Quakerism 988
Gerrard Winstanley Very English radical 865
Winstanley and The Diggers 10,062
Winstanley came to see this New Age as an Age of Reason 621
Total
188,521
One final point, this document is 7073 words long, words I should add to the final total. I now see a future which involves me counting every word I write. 25 million is the next target. I have to say, though, that the surrogate world has exhausted my energies. It is the real world in the flesh that now inspires me. And challenges and repels also. If words can stand between you and reality, they can also hold it at bay to allow for necessary mediation.
Hold on. I've just remembered my e-Akademeia site, my electronic educational grassroots, Plato's Academy on the Internet. I shudder to think how many more words this adds to my calculations.
