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Tim Howles

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Research Fellow, University of Oxford Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities Associate Director @LSRIOxford Anglican Priest https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles

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Just ordered:
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

20.11.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.”

17.11.2025 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œKant and EnvironmentalΒ Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative ofΒ Sustainability”

Zachary Vereb

www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

16.11.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here is my latest journal article, an evaluation of the very interesting late novel by William Golding: Darkness Visible.

"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
academic.oup.com/eic/article/...

12.11.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"William Golding: The Faber Letters"
The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

12.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Looking forward to joining this event later on today:

www.faber.co.uk/product/will...

12.11.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just received:

11.11.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation Before socialism even had a name, the poet and painter William Blake saw how the Industrial Revolution’s "dark Satanic mills" harmed humanity. His visionary work condemned the forces of commodificatio...

"William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation"
By Jonathan Agin
jacobin.com/2025/11/blak...

10.11.2025 10:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve? Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions

Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve?

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

09.11.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux StratΓ©giques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...

08.11.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RIP Paolo Virno (1952- 2025), Italian Marxist philosopher and semiologist

08.11.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading today:

07.11.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The D'Arcy Room, Campion Hall, University of Oxford (just underneath my office):

06.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.

"The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along: The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty"
Elizabeth Bruenig www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

06.11.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What's the best scholarly "webinar" series you've seen in the last few months. (If people are still registering for such things). In the humanities/ social sciences. Thanks

05.11.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A little review by me of an interesting recent book on Christian ethics and the idea of perfection, in "Studies in Christian Ethics". If of interest.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

05.11.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"The ten hours' light is abating,
And a late bird flies across,
Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,
Give their black heads a toss."

(from Thomas Hardy, 'At Day-Close in November')

03.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something Wholly New In Rome, Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III met not so much to restore a tradition as to inaugurate a new one.

"Something Wholly New: The real significance of an English king praying with the pope"
Austen Ivereigh
www.commonwealmagazine.org/ivereigh-leo...

03.11.2025 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œLiterature and Art as CognitiveΒ Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics ofΒ Action”
Patricia Kolaiti

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

02.11.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Added a link to an interview with the author, Melissa Moschella.

undpress.nd.edu/blog/2025/03...

01.11.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So glad you’re reading Golding and especially The Inheritors. Great article.

01.11.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just starting to write in the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophical theology of this man:

cambridge.org/core/publicati….

01.11.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy β€˜scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis β€œscares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

31.10.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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New EGS Podcast episode with Catherine Malabou.
shows.acast.com/egs-podcast/...

31.10.2025 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This looks interesting:

30.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

29.10.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New book:
β€œAbsolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.

www.sup.org/books/politi...

28.10.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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New book:
β€œAbsolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.

www.sup.org/books/politi...

28.10.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œJΓΌrgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist”
Peter J. VerovΕ‘ek

Columbia University Press

cup.columbia.edu/book/jurgen-...

27.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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