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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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Forthcoming:

New article from me: "Repatriating Bruno Latour for the Left". What might Latour's thought offer for a political economy of the left? logisticsofreligionblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r...

Have just ordered: “Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures” Gabrielle Hecht read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Heidegger's thoughts on apocalypticism and the katechon in "Phenomenology of the Religious Life" are interesting: iupress.org/978025322189...

Currently reading:

"Math and Poetry: The Making and Remaking of Capital" Alyssa Battistoni www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Francis Young, "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples" - Cambridge University Press, May 2025 cambridge.org/core/books/s...

"The Political Philosophy of Pierre Manent" voegelinview.com/the-politica...

Have just pre-ordered this: www.faber.co.uk/journal/fabe...

"The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989" Matt Myers academic.oup.com/book/59556

"After Speculative Realism", ed. Charlie Johns & Hilan Bensusan www.bloomsbury.com/uk/after-spe...

1. A short thread on the dichotomy of nature/ culture as it appears in the political philosophy and political theology of Carl Schmitt.

"To Die of Not Writing: Doing Philosophy of Religion with Emmanuel Falque" Ed. Pablo Irizar, Donald Boyce & Martin Koci Foreword by Cyril O'Regan wipfandstock.com/979838520314...

A great little event coming up at Campion Hall, Oxford: screening of the documentary film "Guardians of the Rainforests", with a panel discussion on scholarly engagements with indigenous communities. Tuesday 18 February, 17.00-19.00. Register for free here: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/events/rainf...

"The birth of naturalism" The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting. aeon.co/essays/inves...

"Theology & Integral Ecology: New Approaches to our Planetary Crisis" Forthcoming conference we will be hosting at the University of Oxford, 24-25 April 2025. Final few tickets now available. For more information and to register see here: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/conference2025

"Bergson as Writer: Literature in Philosophy" Bruno Clément Trans. Anthony Uhlmann edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bergson...

New in the series: Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism “Populism and Fascism” (2025) Carlos de la Torre cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Currently reading:

Was so pleased to be part of the peer review of this amazing volume, on a very important philosophical-theological thinker: "Unfinished God: The Speculative Philosophical Theology of Ray L. Hart" Ed. Alina N Feld, Sean J. McGrath edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unfinis...

"The Story of Nature: A Human History" Jeremy Mynot Also great review here: prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6911...

"Don Cupitt, the priest who didn’t believe in God" Despite once being a practising clergyman, the late Cupitt was noted for his radical ideas on ‘non-realist’ philosophy of religion www.theneweuropean.co.uk/everyday-phi...

"Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist?" Julie Hanlon Rubio global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Delighted to be involved with this next month: cpkp.net/event/nature...

1. A short thread on the influence of the idea of “Gaia” upon the metaphysics that informs the work of twentieth-century novelist William Golding.

"The Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain" Jason West www.cuapress.org/978081323937...

"Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802" Naomi Fisher global.oup.com/academic/pro...

“Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is recollected has been, is repeated backward, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forward.”

My two favourite books by René Girard: