Tim Howles
@timhowles.bsky.social
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
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
"I think it is because I strive to be apolitical that I become supremely political."
French Jesuit Gaston Fessard, 1935.
French Jesuit Gaston Fessard, 1935.
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"I think it is because I strive to be apolitical that I become supremely political."
French Jesuit Gaston Fessard, 1935.
French Jesuit Gaston Fessard, 1935.
"Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes"
Filippo Del Lucchese
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Filippo Del Lucchese
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November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"Constituent Power in Early Modern Political Philosophy: From La Boétie to Hobbes"
Filippo Del Lucchese
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Filippo Del Lucchese
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-constit...
Just ordered:
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
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"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
November 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Just ordered:
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
"The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization"
Mohamed Amer Meziane
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
“I 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.”
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“I 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.”
“Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability”
Zachary Vereb
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Zachary Vereb
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November 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
“Kant and Environmental Philosophy: The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability”
Zachary Vereb
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Zachary Vereb
www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
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
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"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
academic.oup.com/eic/article/...
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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/...
"Freedom, Responsibility, and Fable in Golding’s Darkness Visible"
Essays in Criticism, 75:3, July 2025: 258–274
academic.oup.com/eic/article/...
"William Golding: The Faber Letters"
The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
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The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"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...
The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years
www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
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"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
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November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
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RIP Paolo Virno (1952- 2025), Italian Marxist philosopher and semiologist
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
RIP Paolo Virno (1952- 2025), Italian Marxist philosopher and semiologist
The D'Arcy Room, Campion Hall, University of Oxford (just underneath my office):
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The D'Arcy Room, Campion Hall, University of Oxford (just underneath my office):
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
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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
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.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
"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')
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')
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"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')
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')
“Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action”
Patricia Kolaiti
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Patricia Kolaiti
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November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Literature and Art as Cognitive Objects: From a Poetics of Language to a Poetics of Action”
Patricia Kolaiti
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Patricia Kolaiti
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Just starting to write in the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophical theology of this man:
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November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just starting to write in the Cambridge Elements series on the philosophical theology of this man:
cambridge.org/core/publicati….
cambridge.org/core/publicati….
New EGS Podcast episode with Catherine Malabou.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New EGS Podcast episode with Catherine Malabou.
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This looks interesting:
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This looks interesting:
New book:
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New book:
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
New book:
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
New book:
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
“Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel & Marx”
Michael Lazarus. Stanford: UP, 2025.
www.sup.org/books/politi...
"Kant: A Revolution in Thinking"
Marcus Willaschek
Translated by Peter Lewis
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
Marcus Willaschek
Translated by Peter Lewis
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
October 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Kant: A Revolution in Thinking"
Marcus Willaschek
Translated by Peter Lewis
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
Marcus Willaschek
Translated by Peter Lewis
hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…
Alice Munro had a print of this Chagall painting above her desk. Here, in Robert Thacker’s Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, she describes why.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Alice Munro had a print of this Chagall painting above her desk. Here, in Robert Thacker’s Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives, she describes why.