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
Have just ordered:
"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
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"La Guerre Chaude: Enjeux Stratégiques du Changement Climatique"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
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"
www.pressesdesciencespo.fr/en/book/?GCO...
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.
shows.acast.com/egs-podcast/...
shows.acast.com/egs-podcast/...
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.
Towards the new University of Oxford Humanities Building (inc. Faculty of Theology and Religion) from St Anne’s College, where I was doing a seminar yesterday.
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Towards the new University of Oxford Humanities Building (inc. Faculty of Theology and Religion) from St Anne’s College, where I was doing a seminar yesterday.
"Mine is a search for the anthropology of the cross, which turns out to rehabilitate orthodox theology"
René Girard, interview with James G. Williams, in ‘The Anthropology of the Cross’ (1996), p.288.
René Girard, interview with James G. Williams, in ‘The Anthropology of the Cross’ (1996), p.288.
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Mine is a search for the anthropology of the cross, which turns out to rehabilitate orthodox theology"
René Girard, interview with James G. Williams, in ‘The Anthropology of the Cross’ (1996), p.288.
René Girard, interview with James G. Williams, in ‘The Anthropology of the Cross’ (1996), p.288.
The Cambridge Elements series is so useful. I've just read this one in the Environmental Humanities series:`
"Wasteocene: Stores from the Global Dump"
Marco Armiero
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"Wasteocene: Stores from the Global Dump"
Marco Armiero
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
October 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Cambridge Elements series is so useful. I've just read this one in the Environmental Humanities series:`
"Wasteocene: Stores from the Global Dump"
Marco Armiero
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
"Wasteocene: Stores from the Global Dump"
Marco Armiero
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
October 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"On the Significance of Religion in Immigration Policy"
Barnabas Aspray, David Elcott
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Barnabas Aspray, David Elcott
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"On the Significance of Religion in Immigration Policy"
Barnabas Aspray, David Elcott
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
Barnabas Aspray, David Elcott
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
This is a truly excellent book, which should be of value to those in philosophy, literary studies and intellectual history.
Very interesting to note extent to which Carl Schmitt understood himself not as Hamlet, but as Othello.
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Very interesting to note extent to which Carl Schmitt understood himself not as Hamlet, but as Othello.
buecher.de/shop/histori...
October 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is a truly excellent book, which should be of value to those in philosophy, literary studies and intellectual history.
Very interesting to note extent to which Carl Schmitt understood himself not as Hamlet, but as Othello.
buecher.de/shop/histori...
Very interesting to note extent to which Carl Schmitt understood himself not as Hamlet, but as Othello.
buecher.de/shop/histori...
“Une histoire environnementale de la France, 1780-1870”
Volume 1 - La nature en révolution
Volume 1 - La nature en révolution
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Une histoire environnementale de la France, 1780-1870”
Volume 1 - La nature en révolution
Volume 1 - La nature en révolution
“The Ecological Dinner at the Kingdom” by Cerezo Barredo
For context on this image, see: uscatholic.org/articles/20231…
For context on this image, see: uscatholic.org/articles/20231…
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“The Ecological Dinner at the Kingdom” by Cerezo Barredo
For context on this image, see: uscatholic.org/articles/20231…
For context on this image, see: uscatholic.org/articles/20231…
“In the labyrinth of acts, states and faculties of the mind, the thread which one must never lose is the one furnished by biology.”
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“In the labyrinth of acts, states and faculties of the mind, the thread which one must never lose is the one furnished by biology.”
Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson