Sean J Mcgrath
Biographic Data
| ID | 461700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean J Mcgrath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgrath |
| SIGNATURE | MCGRATH S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Ethics of Voluntary Poverty
The article argues that today’s ecological polycrisis cannot be solved by technology alone and requires a fundamental reduction in consumption. It highlights how extreme wealth drives disproportionate environmental harm, while the poorest suffer the worst consequences. The article revives the concept of voluntary poverty: a freely chosen reduction of material needs grounded in trust, sufficiency, and community. Distinct from involuntary poverty, …
The Palgrave Schelling Handbook
Is the Environmental Crisis Also an Aesthetic Crisis
The papers in this issue are contributions from an international research team in comparative environmental aesthetics. The group, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Nature as Symbol of God
The following essay is an effort to apply the concept of theophany, common to all monotheisms, but drawing especially on the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa, to the environmental philosophical problem of understanding what nature is such that we should treat it reverentially
The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling
A defence of the rationality and rigour of the late Schelling’s visionary philosophy of religion A major new effort to organise and evaluate Schelling’s arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to demonstrate their importance for contemporary debates Finds in largely unexamined texts of the late Schelling new resources for critiquing rationalism, reductive naturalism, and posthumanism Will appeal to the many scholars in various fields working…
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947–2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley’s philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley’s thought Includes a preface by Peter Harris and a contextualising introduction b…
Thinking Nature
Makes a compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism where humans have a special responsibility for nature Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism – a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a n…
The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling
Reading Heidegger, Reading Scotus
The young Heidegger finds in his early reading of Duns Scotus and Thomas of Erfurt suggestions from medieval speculative grammar for the solution to the category problem: the limited nature of the Aristotelian ten categories, and how such categories, in their application to only one domain of being, leave out the fore-theoretical sense of life. The elaboration of the fore-theoretical categories of being-in-the-world will occupy Heidegger in the w…
Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy
I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God fo…
Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy
I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God fo…
Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature-Philosophy
I argue against current deflationary trends in Schelling scholarship that positive philosophy is not negative philosophy by other means but exceeds it in content and form. While nature-philosophy gives to positive philosophy the means to think the positive, the latter is not “natural” but revealed. I situate the turn to the positive in Schelling’s 1809 Freedom essay, which introduces the possibility of a real distinction between nature and God fo…
The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling
Reading Heidegger, Reading Scotus
The young Heidegger finds in his early reading of Duns Scotus and Thomas of Erfurt suggestions from medieval speculative grammar for the solution to the category problem: the limited nature of the Aristotelian ten categories, and how such categories, in their application to only one domain of being, leave out the fore-theoretical sense of life. The elaboration of the fore-theoretical categories of being-in-the-world will occupy Heidegger in the w…
Thinking Nature
Makes a compelling case for a new Anthropocenic humanism where humans have a special responsibility for nature Thinking Nature tracks the history of the concept of nature from the Hebrew Bible, through Renaissance philosophy and science, to Dark Ecology. Critical of the post-humanist trend in contemporary eco-criticism, Sean McGrath makes a compelling case for a new anthropocenic humanism – a humanism that is not at the expense of nature, and a n…
The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling
A defence of the rationality and rigour of the late Schelling’s visionary philosophy of religion A major new effort to organise and evaluate Schelling’s arguments for a Philosophy of Revelation and to demonstrate their importance for contemporary debates Finds in largely unexamined texts of the late Schelling new resources for critiquing rationalism, reductive naturalism, and posthumanism Will appeal to the many scholars in various fields working…
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collects the essays of James Bradley (1947–2012) for the first time, showcasing his speculative cosmology of the Trinity Reinvigorates the debate about the role and significance of speculative philosophy in the Anglo-American tradition Reveals the depth and breadth of Bradley’s philosophical thought Presented in chronological order, following the movement of Bradley’s thought Includes a preface by Peter Harris and a contextualising introduction b…
Nature as Symbol of God
The following essay is an effort to apply the concept of theophany, common to all monotheisms, but drawing especially on the philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa, to the environmental philosophical problem of understanding what nature is such that we should treat it reverentially
The Ethics of Voluntary Poverty
The article argues that today’s ecological polycrisis cannot be solved by technology alone and requires a fundamental reduction in consumption. It highlights how extreme wealth drives disproportionate environmental harm, while the poorest suffer the worst consequences. The article revives the concept of voluntary poverty: a freely chosen reduction of material needs grounded in trust, sufficiency, and community. Distinct from involuntary poverty, …
The Palgrave Schelling Handbook
Is the Environmental Crisis Also an Aesthetic Crisis
The papers in this issue are contributions from an international research team in comparative environmental aesthetics. The group, funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Naturalism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and Historical Thought (2 works)