Chris Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wales Trinity Saint David |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Replies to Critics of The Spectre of Capital
I thank my interlocutors for the care and attention that they have given to my work, The Spectre of Capital; Idea and Reality . 1 I also thank the journal for organizing this symposium. The book rigorously develops a systematic dialectical presentation (SDP) of capital as an Idea. The very first, perhaps, to explore the method of systematic dialectic were Tony Smith and Geert Reuten. This problematic always involves a nuanced reception of Hegel’s…
A Year and a Day
Reviewed by: A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate Chris Arthur Phillip Lopate A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays New York. New York Review Books. 2023. 216 pages. IT WOULD BE EASY to jump to the wrong conclusion about a book like this one, which is made up of a writer's collected blogs. What's written to be read online as a blog post is surely marked by a kind of electronic transience; it's very much of the moment, d…
Surveying the Anthropocene
Reviewed by: Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now ed. by Patricia Macdonald Chris Arthur Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now Ed. Patricia Macdonald Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 234 pages. THIS VISUALLY STUNNING collection of photographs and essays presents readers with an unsettling view of the moment in time in which we find ourselves. As Robert Macfarlane explains, in one of the mos…
Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt
Reviewed by: Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt Chris Arthur Steven Lovatt Birdsong in a Time of Silence London. Particular Books. 2021. 149 pages. IN TRYING TO convey the quality of Birdsong in a Time of Silence, I found myself remembering something from another beautifully written bird-themed book. In Owls and Other Fantasies, Mary Oliver says: "To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." Steven Lovatt's elegiac meditati…
What to Read Now
What to Read NowRecent Essay Collections Chris Arthur (bio) What I like about essays is their sheer unpredictability and exuberance, their limitless range of subject matter, the way in which, within short compass, they give access to all kinds of perspectives. Their independence— often combined with eccentricity—adds to their appeal. Essays shrug off definition and constraint and go their own way, to wherever that happens to take them, in whateve…
Northern Protestants
Reviewed by: Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground by Susan McKay Chris Arthur Susan McKay Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground Belfast. The Blackstaff Press. 2021. 346 pages. war photographer Robert Capa famously said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." The outstanding quality of the word-pictures drawn in Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground relies on the author's practice of getting close enough to peopl…
On Essays
BOOKS IN REVIEW On Essays: Montaigne to the Present Ed. Thomas Karshan & Kathryn Murphy Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2020. 380 pages. IN HER INTRODUCTION to The Best American Essays 1992, Susan Sontag writes: “The culture administered by universities has always regarded the essay with suspicion.” Twenty-eight years later, does the appearance of On Essays: Montaigne to the Present —produced by one of the world’s premier university publishers a…
Escaping Indoors
In a series of vignettes, essayist Chris Arthur considers why “respecting what gives life is not a lesson to be learned indoors.”
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Financial Literacy Education for Citizens
Financial literacy education is often assumed to be a form of technical and/or hermeneutic training that assists citizens as well as consumers make responsible financial decisions. As a form of civic literacy education, financial literacy education is often framed as promoting civic responsibility, equality and engagement. This article calls into question the seemingly common-sense construction of financial literacy as personal money management f…
Ritual, Media, and Conflict
Irish essays
A history of the world in 100 objects a joint venture between bbc radio and the british museum
"A history of the world in 100 objects a joint venture between bbc radio and the british museum." Material Religion, 7(2), pp. 291–292
Pencil Marks
Irish Elegies
In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family, place, memory
Sacred places
(2005). Sacred places: spirit and landscape Paine, Crispin. Material Religion: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 424-425
Material religion in cyberspace
The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
This book both argues for, and demonstrates, a new turn to dialectic. Marx's Capital was clearly influenced by Hegel's dialectical figures: here, case by case, the significance of these is clarified. More, it is argued that, instead of the dialectic of the rise and fall of social systems, what is needed is a method of articulating the dialectical relations characterising a given social whole. Marx learnt from Hegel the necessity for a systematic …
Towards an Unknown Marx
Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-3 ENRIQUE DUSSEL, Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Angulo, Edited, with an Introduction, by Fred Moseley" published on 01 Jan 2003 by Brill
The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
On Robert Albritton's Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy
Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy R OBERT A LBRITTON London: Macmillan Press, 1999 Reviewed by C HRIS A RTHUR One of the most original and interesting thinkers working in the Marxist tradition was Kozo Uno (1897–1977). His most important idea was that it is essential to dis- criminate three levels of analysis in the theorisation of capitalism, each of which poses its own methodological problems. These are: the theory of a purely …
Marx's Fourth Capital Circuit
In the first draft of Volume II of Capital Marx set out four circuits of capital, not three as in the final version. The fourth starts from 'the factors of the labour process'. Here reasons for and against such a circuit are examined
Zen and the art of ignoring information
This article explores some of the tensions that exist between information and religion. Attention is drawn to the concern which is sometimes voiced that the saving transformation which religious teachings variously purport to offer, may be indefinitely postponed by a preoccupation with information. To counteract this possibility, religions act as information‐limiting devices by focusing the individual's attention on a level of concern consonant w…
Capital
Some remarks on information and religion
This article considers some of the ways in which the enormous growth of information about religion that has occurred over the last century has influenced both the academic study of religion and human religiousness itself. The modern study of religion is characterized as a discipline still reeling from a sudden explosion of information about its subject matter. The shock waves from that explosion are important factors in the “spiritual crisis” whi…
Financial Literacy Education for Citizens
Financial literacy education is often assumed to be a form of technical and/or hermeneutic training that assists citizens as well as consumers make responsible financial decisions. As a form of civic literacy education, financial literacy education is often framed as promoting civic responsibility, equality and engagement. This article calls into question the seemingly common-sense construction of financial literacy as personal money management f…
Towards an Unknown Marx
Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-3 ENRIQUE DUSSEL, Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Angulo, Edited, with an Introduction, by Fred Moseley" published on 01 Jan 2003 by Brill
Some remarks on information and religion
This article considers some of the ways in which the enormous growth of information about religion that has occurred over the last century has influenced both the academic study of religion and human religiousness itself. The modern study of religion is characterized as a discipline still reeling from a sudden explosion of information about its subject matter. The shock waves from that explosion are important factors in the “spiritual crisis” whi…
Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic and a Myth of Marxology
There is a widely held view that Marx was profoundly influenced by the Master–Servant (‘Herrschaft und Knechtschaft’) dialectic in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. This view was first popularized by Jean-Paul Sartre, who refers in his Being and Nothingness (1943) to ‘the famous Master-Slave relation which so profoundly influenced
Law and Marxism
This is classic Marxist study first published in 1924 - one of the principal Soviet contributions to jurisprudence theory. It is an authoritative non-revisionist text offering both commentary and critique of prevailing Marxist and non-Marxist legal theory. Pashukanis states that juridical and state forms are linked to specific type of class society - capitalist society. However, law comes not from the rule of the capitalist class but from the rel…
Some remarks on information and religion
This article considers some of the ways in which the enormous growth of information about religion that has occurred over the last century has influenced both the academic study of religion and human religiousness itself. The modern study of religion is characterized as a discipline still reeling from a sudden explosion of information about its subject matter. The shock waves from that explosion are important factors in the “spiritual crisis” whi…
Capital
Zen and the art of ignoring information
This article explores some of the tensions that exist between information and religion. Attention is drawn to the concern which is sometimes voiced that the saving transformation which religious teachings variously purport to offer, may be indefinitely postponed by a preoccupation with information. To counteract this possibility, religions act as information‐limiting devices by focusing the individual's attention on a level of concern consonant w…
Marx's Fourth Capital Circuit
In the first draft of Volume II of Capital Marx set out four circuits of capital, not three as in the final version. The fourth starts from 'the factors of the labour process'. Here reasons for and against such a circuit are examined
The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
On Robert Albritton's Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy
Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy R OBERT A LBRITTON London: Macmillan Press, 1999 Reviewed by C HRIS A RTHUR One of the most original and interesting thinkers working in the Marxist tradition was Kozo Uno (1897–1977). His most important idea was that it is essential to dis- criminate three levels of analysis in the theorisation of capitalism, each of which poses its own methodological problems. These are: the theory of a purely …
Towards an Unknown Marx
Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861-3 ENRIQUE DUSSEL, Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Angulo, Edited, with an Introduction, by Fred Moseley" published on 01 Jan 2003 by Brill
The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
This book both argues for, and demonstrates, a new turn to dialectic. Marx's Capital was clearly influenced by Hegel's dialectical figures: here, case by case, the significance of these is clarified. More, it is argued that, instead of the dialectic of the rise and fall of social systems, what is needed is a method of articulating the dialectical relations characterising a given social whole. Marx learnt from Hegel the necessity for a systematic …
Sacred places
(2005). Sacred places: spirit and landscape Paine, Crispin. Material Religion: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 424-425
Material religion in cyberspace
Irish Elegies
In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family, place, memory
Pencil Marks
A history of the world in 100 objects a joint venture between bbc radio and the british museum
"A history of the world in 100 objects a joint venture between bbc radio and the british museum." Material Religion, 7(2), pp. 291–292
Financial Literacy Education for Citizens
Financial literacy education is often assumed to be a form of technical and/or hermeneutic training that assists citizens as well as consumers make responsible financial decisions. As a form of civic literacy education, financial literacy education is often framed as promoting civic responsibility, equality and engagement. This article calls into question the seemingly common-sense construction of financial literacy as personal money management f…
Ritual, Media, and Conflict
Irish essays
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Escaping Indoors
In a series of vignettes, essayist Chris Arthur considers why “respecting what gives life is not a lesson to be learned indoors.”
On Essays
BOOKS IN REVIEW On Essays: Montaigne to the Present Ed. Thomas Karshan & Kathryn Murphy Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2020. 380 pages. IN HER INTRODUCTION to The Best American Essays 1992, Susan Sontag writes: “The culture administered by universities has always regarded the essay with suspicion.” Twenty-eight years later, does the appearance of On Essays: Montaigne to the Present —produced by one of the world’s premier university publishers a…
Surveying the Anthropocene
Reviewed by: Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now ed. by Patricia Macdonald Chris Arthur Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now Ed. Patricia Macdonald Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. 2022. 234 pages. THIS VISUALLY STUNNING collection of photographs and essays presents readers with an unsettling view of the moment in time in which we find ourselves. As Robert Macfarlane explains, in one of the mos…
Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt
Reviewed by: Birdsong in a Time of Silence by Steven Lovatt Chris Arthur Steven Lovatt Birdsong in a Time of Silence London. Particular Books. 2021. 149 pages. IN TRYING TO convey the quality of Birdsong in a Time of Silence, I found myself remembering something from another beautifully written bird-themed book. In Owls and Other Fantasies, Mary Oliver says: "To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." Steven Lovatt's elegiac meditati…
What to Read Now
What to Read NowRecent Essay Collections Chris Arthur (bio) What I like about essays is their sheer unpredictability and exuberance, their limitless range of subject matter, the way in which, within short compass, they give access to all kinds of perspectives. Their independence— often combined with eccentricity—adds to their appeal. Essays shrug off definition and constraint and go their own way, to wherever that happens to take them, in whateve…
Northern Protestants
Reviewed by: Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground by Susan McKay Chris Arthur Susan McKay Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground Belfast. The Blackstaff Press. 2021. 346 pages. war photographer Robert Capa famously said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." The outstanding quality of the word-pictures drawn in Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground relies on the author's practice of getting close enough to peopl…
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