Human beings are story making animals. Before homo faber came homo symbolicus. Ecological restoration is a restorying. Transitioning to a new world is always a matter of being between stories. We may call these worldviews, standpoints or paradigms, articulating norms and values. We are moving from one view, the materialist, mechanistic and…[Read more]

Arguing that a principled standpoint is a condition for any person or movement seeking to effect real social change, this book foregrounds social and environmental justice as against economic imperatives based on accumulation, profit and endless growth. This book argues that the reality of environmental crisis and the prospect of future social…[Read more]

Global economic activity has increased dramatically since the Second World War. The principal agents of this globalisation have been the TNCs. Most importantly, the TNCs have been major players in the growth industries and leading sectors of the long post-war boom and their central presence in what is now a global economy has fundamentally altered…[Read more]

Research for my Masters in economics

This volume re-engages with the theoretical debates broached in parts of the first two volumes with respect to the centralisation and concentration of capital. The critical focus is upon the transnational corporations and the transnationalisation of capital as the prime mechanisms of the inherent tendency to…[Read more]

This volume continues to develop the themes outlined in the previous volume concerning the way in which the necessity of an industrial policy is constrained by the emergence of supra-national economic forces.The argument demonstrates the extent to which E.C. competition policy and the SEM programme run in a contrary direction to the idea of an…[Read more]

This thesis concerns European and international economics and, although special effort has been made to avoid the use of technical jargon, presumes a degree of prior knowledge of economic theory. That said, this thesis recognises that economics proceeds within a political context. In contradistinction to academic economists, this thesis treats…[Read more]

The argument of this book attempts to show the relevance of Marx’s work to the attempt to create a new politics of citizenship. This argues that Marx is engaged above all in an attempt to formulate a new politics – specifically, a communist politics based upon the reintegration of political and social relationships, the overcoming of the state and…[Read more]

This book examines the case for planetary engineering and management that seeks to redefine and reorganise environmentalism around nuclear power, biotechnology, GM food and geoengineering. This amounts to moral and political disarmament of the environmental movement and can be resisted. This book examines what these proposals amount to and what…[Read more]

The reconciliation of an ethics of immanence with the affirmation of transcendent standards.

This book charts the dissipation of an authoritative moral framework from the intersubjectivism and universalism of Immanuel Kant to the nihilism of Nietzsche. Weber’s much vaunted polytheism is shown to be an heterogeneity of values, the reduction of morality to value judgements. The book proceeds to argue the case for the importance of St T…[Read more]

Dante as the poet-philosopher of living hope.

This book identifies the contemporary environmental crisis as a call to create a new biocentric civilisation. Proceeding from the identification of the constants of civilized life, the argument seeks to build constructive ecological models by relating Green politics to philosophy and ethics. This approach seeks to develop a practical, institution…[Read more]

This book conceives philosophy in terms of philosophising as an active process. The intention of the argument is to restore philosophy to its origins as an ethos, a practice, a way of living for rational beings. Philosophy is therefore presented more as a practice or an activity than as an intellectual exercise or subject discipline. Philosophy is…[Read more]

Pt1 Cities and Citizenship This part makes the case for expanding ‘the political’ as a public life at the expense of centralised abstract state politics through making available extensive public spaces for the exercise of local citizen power at the level of the neighbourhood, town, and city confederation.
Pt2 The Philosophical Idea of the City…[Read more]

This book is motivated by a concern that the city is in danger of losing its traditional functions as a place of human interaction and reciprocity, as meeting place and associational space. The quality of individual interaction establishes the content of civic, political and cultural life in the city. The problem is that these precious resources…[Read more]

This book covers the period of working class socialism between the final years of the nineteenth century up to the 1930s. The book contains chapters on Industrial Unionism, Revolutionary Syndicalism and Council Communism. There are substantial chapters on Tom Mann, James Connolly, Antonio Gramsci and Rosa Luxemburg. The principal concern of the…[Read more]

This thesis distinguishes between a scientistic-deterministic Marxism and a critical-emancipatory Marxism in order to establish Marx within the tradition of socialism from below, a conception which affirms the principle of self-emancipation. The thesis argues that Marx developed the most powerful practical critique of the capital system that…[Read more]

This thesis examines the idea of freedom in the thought of Karl Marx in relation to a philosophical tradition concerning the appropriate regimen for creative human self-realisation dating from Plato and Aristotle. The thesis consists of nine parts. Part One examines the work of a number of postmarxist democratic theorists in order to demonstrate…[Read more]