Philip Goodchild

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Expertise Summary

Continental philosophy of religion The theology of money and globalisation Truth and religious difference Areas where I am keen to offer supervision include: religion in recent Continental philosophy; religious responses to economic globalisation; problems of truth and difference in inter-faith relations. I can also offer some supervision in broader areas of: philosophy of religion; religion and politics.

Recent Publications

• GOODCHILD P, 2013. The Future of Liberation. In: JOHN D. CAPUTO, CLAYTON CROCKETT and JEFF ROBBINS, eds., The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion Fordham University Press. (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2013. In: STEVEN SHAKESPEARE and KATHARINE MOODY, eds., Intensities: Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life Ashgate. (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2012. 'What's Wrong with the Global Financial System?' Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. 24(1), (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2011. Deleuze and Philosophy of Religion. In: JOY, M, ed., Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion Springer. 139-64

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Past Research

Reading Einstein on relativity at the age of 13 gave me a passion for purely speculative questions, and I later went up to Churchill College, Cambridge to read Mathematics in the hope of becoming a theoretical physicist. But time spent in an inner city area of Walsall through the 'Time for God' voluntary work scheme between school and university had brought to my attention more significant questions about the nature of life than purely physical ones, and so I changed subject after my first year to read Theology and Religious Studies. Here I was most influenced by Kosuke Koyama's Lutheran theology of inter-faith humility, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 'religionless Christianity', John Howard Yoder's radical politics of Jesus, and Carl Jung's depth psychology. Having decided I needed to spend time studying and rethinking my direction in life, I went to Lancaster University where I could study the range of religious issues that now interested me. These included a course on Nietzsche and his successors taught by John Milbank. I was gripped: instead of spending one year in Lancaster, I spent eleven. I wrote a PhD dissertation entitled 'Chaos and Eternity: Gilles Deleuze and the Question of Philosophy'. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was among the most difficult and profound French philosophers of the twentieth century, although he has only recently become one of the most influential. Most of my dissertation was later published as Gilles Deleuze and the Question of Philosophy (Associated University Presses, 1996). I was then asked to write Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire (London: Sage, 1996), for the Theory, Culture and Society book series, which I completed as a postdoctoral research fellow at St Martin's College, Lancaster. In 1996 I was appointed as Lecturer in Christian Theology at St Martin's, and soon found myself invited to international conferences on Deleuze in Australia and Canada. Teaching and research were moving in different directions, so I decided to organise a conference on Continental philosophy of religion in order to contribute some shape and coherence to a developing field. This took place at St Martin's College, Lancaster, in July 2000. I was appointed as Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham in January 2000, where my teaching shifted to include Buddhism, theories of religion, religious pluralism, philosophy of religion and critical theory. Within a year I had completed my major work, Capitalism and Religion: The Price of Piety (Routledge, 2002) - an attempt to construct a Continental philosophy of religion through the encounter between questions of truth, ethics, and piety and readings of key thinkers in the tradition of Continental thought and critical theory. Since then, I have become interested in the implications for philosophical and religious thought of the collision between ecology and economy in the contemporary world, and I am in the process of developing a political theology through a critique of the 'theology of money' that determines contemporary life.

• GOODCHILD P, 2013. The Future of Liberation. In: JOHN D. CAPUTO, CLAYTON CROCKETT and JEFF ROBBINS, eds., The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion Fordham University Press. (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2013. In: STEVEN SHAKESPEARE and KATHARINE MOODY, eds., Intensities: Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life Ashgate. (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2012. 'What's Wrong with the Global Financial System?' Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. 24(1), (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2011. Deleuze and Philosophy of Religion. In: JOY, M, ed., Continental Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion Springer. 139-64
• GOODCHILD, P, 2011. The Shadow Side of Debt Common Knowledge. 17(2), 375-382 (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2011. A Theological Interpretation of the Financial Crisis Modern Believing. 52(1), 10-20 (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2010. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Deleuze on Thinking and Money SubStance. 39(1), 24-37
• GOODCHILD, P, 2010. The Market, God and Ascetic Life. In: ILKKA PYYSIAINEN, ed., Religion, Economy and Cooperation Walter de Gruyter. 219-236 (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2010. Economies of Promise: On Caesar and Christ. In: BRADLEY, A. and FLETCHER, P., eds., The Politics to Come: Power, Modernity and the Messianic London: Continuum. 141-60
• GOODCHILD, P. & N. OTHERS, 2010. Hypocrisy. In: SMITH, A.P. and WHISTLER, D., eds., After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion Cambridge Scholars Press. 380-398
• GOODCHILD, P, 2009. Theology of Money Duke University Press.
• GOODCHILD, P, 2009. The Political and the Religious Philosophical Meditations. 1(1), 10-18
• GOODCHILD, P, 2008. The Reasonableness of Philosophy of Religion. In: CHEETHAM, D and KING, R, eds., Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion: New Essays London: Continuum. 188-203 (In Press.)
• GOODCHILD, P, 2007. Theology of Money London: SCM-Canterbury Press.
• GOODCHILD, P., 2006. Truth and Utopia Telos. NUMB 134, 64-82
• GOODCHILD, P., 2005. Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology. In: DAVIS, C., MILBANK, J. and ŽIŽEK, S., eds., Theology and the Political: the New Debate Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 127-152
• GOODCHILD, P., 2005. Proslogion. In: BENSON, B.E. and WIRZBA, N., eds., The Phenomenology of Prayer New York: Fordham University Press.
• GOODCHILD, P., 2005. On ‘Religion’: Speeches to its Cultural Despisers. In: CROSSLEY, J.G. and KARNER, C., eds., Writing History, Constructing Religion Aldershot: Ashgate. 49-63
• GOODCHILD, P., 2004. Debt, Epistemology and Ecotheology Ecotheology. 9(2), 151-177
• GOODCHILD, P., 2004. The Return of the Prophet: A Dialogue' Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. 5(2), 58-77
• GOODCHILD, P., 2004. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. In: SIMONS, J., ed., Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 168-184
• GOODCHILD, P., ed., 2003. Difference in philosophy of religion Aldershot: Ashgate.
• GOODCHILD, P., 2003. Oil and Debt: The Collision between Economy and Ecology Situation Analysis. 2, 5-17
• GOODCHILD, P., 2002. Capitalism and religion: the price of piety London: Routledge.
• GOODCHILD, P., ed., 2002. Rethinking philosophy of religion: approaches from continental philosophy New York: Fordham University Press.
• GOODCHILD, P., 2002. Death and Enlightenment in Twelve Brief Episodes Angelaki. VOL 7(PART 2), 39-50
• GOODCHILD, P., 2000. Spirit of Philosophy: Derrida and Deleuze Angelaki. VOL 5(PART 2), 43-58
• GOODCHILD, P., 2000. The Logic of Sacrifice in the Book of Job: Philosophy and the Practice of Religion Cultural Values. VOL 4(PART 2), 167-193
• GOODCHILD, P., 2000. Job as Apologetic: The Role of the Audience Religion. VOL 30(PART 2), 149-168
• GOODCHILD, P., 2000. Why is Philosophy so Compromised with God?. In: Deleuze and Religion London: Routledge. 156-166
• GOODCHILD, P., 2000. Review of Richard King, 'Orientalism and Religion' Religion. 30(3), 300-302
• GOODCHILD, P., 1999. Money, Gift and Sacrifice: Thirteen Short Episodes in the Pricing of Thought Angelaki. VOL 4(PART 3), 25-40
• GOODCHILD, P., 1999. Review of Paul Heelas (ed), 'Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity' Religion. 21(3), 290-292
• GOODCHILD, P., 1998. Review of Pamela Sue Anderson, 'A Feminist Philosophy of Religion' Religion. 20(4), 435-437
• GOODCHILD, P.S., 1997. Theory, Culture & Society. 14(2), 1-2/39-50
• GOODCHILD, P., 1997. Time and Evaluation Antithesis - Irvine - Covenant Community Church of Orange County. 8(2), 35-54
• GOODCHILD, P., 1996. Gilles Deleuze and the question of philosophy Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
• GOODCHILD, P., 1996. A Theological Passion for Deleuze Theology. VOL 99(ISSUE 791), 357-365
• GOODCHILD, P., 1996. Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire London: Sage.
• GOODCHILD, P., 1995. Christian Ethics in the Postmodern Condition Studies in Christian Ethics. VOL 8(NUMBER 1), 20