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WRITING VOICE PUBLICATIONS

“Reading maketh a full man;
conference a ready man;
and writing an exact man.”

- Francis Bacon, Of Studies -

The following is a list of my books, all of which are available through Amazon. Clicking on the title will take you to the Amazon site, where full descriptions are given. 
 
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Books

1995  Europe and the Corporate Restructuring of the Global Political Economy

Volume 1: Whither Capitalism? The Social Market, the Liberal Market, and Beyond. 428 pages, 139,247 words

Vol 2. Globalisation and the Corporate Form. 409 pages, 139,935 words

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1996 The Proletarian Public: Order and Autonomy: The Principle and Practice of Proletarian Self-Emancipation
560 pages, 220,228 words

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1997 Marx, Materialist Dialectics, and Praxis. 

Vol 1. Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity 320 pages,107,304 words 

Vol 2. Dialectical Realism and Active Materialism 468 pages, 142,065 words

Vol 3. The Critique of Alien Control 300 pages, 78,038 words

Vol 4. The Recovery of the Political: Socialism as the Social Republic 559 pages, 166,394 words

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2001 Marx and the Idea of Rational Freedom 460 pages, 150,991 words

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2002 Marx, Rational Freedom, and the Good Society

Vol 1. The Philosophy and Politics of Rational Freedom 519 pages, 196,163 words 

Vol 2. Active Materialism – The Ontology of Reason 321 pages, 103,548 words 

Vol 3. The Politics and Economics of the Self-Governing Society 299 pages, 105,163 words 


2004 The City of Reason.

Vol 1. The Philosophical Ideal of the City, 486 pages, 189,571 words 

Vol 2. The Rationalisation of the City, 322 pages, 123,623 words 

Vol 3. The Political Economy of the City, 298 pages, 108,479 words 

Vol 4. The Social Ecology of the City, 398 pages, 138,689 words 

2003 Restructuring the City: Regeneration and the Meta-Narrative of the Good City 212 pages, 68,557 words

2023 Lewis Mumford and the Recovery of Place, Person, and Proximity, 634 pages, 205,475 words

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2007 Spinoza and the Rule of Reason:

An Introduction to Spinoza’s Philosophy of Freedom, 124 pages, 40,026 words 

2007 The Rational Moral Freedom of Immanuel Kant, 150 pages, 48,125 words 

2011 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 98 pages, 28,924 words

2010 Philosophising through the Eye of the Mind. 440 pages, 173, 872 words

2011 Heaven's Performance: Eros, Thanatos, and the Eternal Fountain 341 pages, 116,607 words

2013 Immanence, Transcendence, and Essence. 307 pages, 123,427

2013 Aquinas, Morality, and Modernity: The Promise of the Natural Moral Law, 522 pages, 175,878 words

​2016 William Blake: Life’s Sweet Delight.  101 pages, 21,164

 

​2018 Social Restitution and Metabolic Restoration in the Thought of Karl Marx 572 pages, 210,675 words

2018 Ethics, Essence, and Immanence 432 pages, 161,248 words

2018 God, Reason, and Reality: Marx and Homo Religiosus. 344 pages, 137,430 words

2018 An Introduction to the Thought of István Mészáros:

Beyond the State and Capital. 220 pages, 62,853 words

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2018 Morality, Sociality, and Modernity:

The Quest for Meaning and Belonging. 479 pages, 191,596 words

2020 The Ecology of Good, 468 pages, 168,220 words

2021 The Politics of Hope against the Ecology of Fear:

To Build the House of Being and Belonging 371 pages, 153,561 words

​​2024 Rational Freedom. 269 pages, 111,541

2024 Visions, Values, and Virtues: Philosophical Essays, 327 pages, 131,881 words

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2023 Revaluing Labour, Rebuilding Jerusalem:

Change and Continuity in working class culture, politics, and experience. 472 pages, 98,741 words

2024 The Dialectic of Religion and Religiosity: A Necessary Polemics. 380 pages, 161,272 words

2024 The Quest for Meaning: Physics, Purpose, and Seeing God in the Face of the Other

223 pages, 90,664 words
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Integral Ecology. Philosophy, Practice, Critique

2011 The Coming Ecological Revolution 551 pages, 217,295 words

2012 Of Gods and Gaia: Men as Gods Gambling with Gaia. 619 pages, 399,440 words

2015 Towards Ecopolis: Ecology as Politics 388 pages, 142,097 words
 

2016 Being at One

Vol I: Making a Home in Earth’s Commonwealth of Virtue 536 pages, 191,882 words

Vol II Spiritual Reality. 352 pages, 116,069 words

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​2016 Re-inheriting the Disinherited Life 199 pages, 64,450 words

2016 Ecological Humanism 131 pages, 40, 585 words

2016 The Economics of Flourishing Well. 265 pages, 88,877 words

2019 Being and Place: The Dialectics of Catastrophe and Hope 373 pages, 147,941 words
2020 Dialectical Ecology: Eco-Socialist Observations on Metabolic Mediation 185 pages, 58,114 words
2020 Regaining Democracy: The Critique of Techno-Bureaucratic Managerialism. 263 pages, 99,601 words

2022 The Critique of Eco-Authoritarianism:

Revaluing Democracy In Face Of Climate Necessity. 292 pages, 94,954 words

2022 Environmental Science, Politics, and Practical Reason. 277 pages, 94,301 words

2023 The Critique of Environmentalism:

Nature Fetishism and the Case for Metaphysical Reconstruction. 282 pages, 115,415 words

2023 Sensible Transcendence: Cultivating a Morality of the Senses. 174 pages, 57,190 words

​​ 2024 Ecopoetics: Essays in Literary Ecology. 392 pages, 123,313

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J.R.R. Tolkien

2023 J.R.R. Tolkien: Tales for Our Times.

Vol 1. Art, Not Power, 412 pages, 194,121 words

Vol II Fellowship and Flourishing, 416 pages, 153,633 words

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Dante Alighieri 

2024 Dante’s Sweet Symphony of Paradise

Vol I: The Political Peace. 412 pages, 136,622 words

​Vol 2: The Comedy: Exile and Homecoming. 594 pages, 234,049 words

Vol 3: The Metaphysics of Music: Dante’s Musical Model. 478 pages, 179,748 words.

​Vol 4: Dante’s Transcendent Enlightenment. 577 pages, 237,731 words

​Vol 5: Dante’s Enamoured Mind. 361 pages, 111,687 words

Vol 6: Dante Dialogues. 327 pages, 109,438 words

 

2024 Essays in Republican Virtue 

Vol. 1 Recovering the Principles of Public Life. 227 pages, 88,275 words

Vol. 2 Beyond Cultural Libertarianism 547 pages, 232,269 words

Vol. 3 Liberalism, Socialism, and Conservatism Against The Coming Technocracy 319 pages, 134,294 words

Vol. 4 The Work of Reconstruction 314 pages, 127,209 words

 

2025 The New Class Struggle 211 pages, 74,111 words

2025 The War on the People 271 pages, 111,305 words
 

​2024 Essays on Faith, Reason, and Reality. 431 pages, 169,152

2024 Peace, Love, and Understanding. 220 pages, 100,000 words
2025 From Power to Plenitude: Lewis Mumford: A Vision to Live By 289 pages, 95,471 words
2025 After Modernity: Del Noce, Weil, and MacIntyre: The Virtues of Place and Practice in Light of Transcendence 401 pages, 136,915 words

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And last, but not least .... The Soundtrack of My Charmed Life

2024 Irreducibly Polynomial: Analects for an Autistobiography. 432 pages, 178,486 words
2024 How the Web Was Woven: Essays in Celebration of Elvis Presley, Heart Singer. 403 pages, 179,514 words
2024 A Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest: 1956-2024 247 pages, 80,878 words

2024 Being Thankful, Expressing Joy: Essays on Living. 287 pages, 98,613 words
 

2015 The Secret People: Liverpool Pop Music from 1980 Onwards

2022 Solid Air, or the Soul of Romantic Melodies

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