simon ravenscroft

Academic

mainly inaccessible words

Humour, Transcendence, and Selfhood: An Essay on Lightness and Truth
Modern Theology
41 (2025): 311-336

On Surprise and the Indirectness of the Theological in the Work of Ivan Illich
Conspiratio
7 (2025): 128-160

Play and Interruption as a Mode of Human Action in Arendt, Dostoevsky, and Kharms
Janus Head
19 (2021): 61-76

Morality, Religion, and Patents (with Kathleen Liddell)
In Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, & Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology & Intellectual Property, 25-37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Patents on Life: Religious, Moral, and Social Justice Aspects of Biotechnology and Intellectual Property
Co-edited with Thomas C. Berg and Roman Cholij
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Irony as a Way of Life?
Reviews in Religion and Theology
24 (2017): 228-235

Modernity and the Economics of Gift & Charity: On Ivan Illich’s Critique of Abstract Philanthropy
Telos
174 (2016): 149-170

Charité, amour et don dans l’oeuvre d’Ivan Illich
In Ivan Illich, l’alchimiste des possibles (ed. Martin Fortier and Thierry Paquot), 165-211
Paris: Lemieux Editeur, 2016

Essay review of Todd Hartch, The Prophet of Cuernevaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West
Reviews in Religion and Theology
23 (2016), 45-49

Review of Geoffrey Hodgson, From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities: An Evolutionary Economics Without Homo Economicus
Political Theology
15 (2014): 281-283

Usury in the Inferno: Auditing Dante’s Debt to the Scholastics
Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
42 (2011): 89-114

Selected list

+ two short reading guides aimed at undergraduates

Martin Buber’s I and Thou (Macat Guides)
London: Routledge, 2018

Plato’s Symposium (Macat Guides) (with Richard Ellis)
London: Routledge, 2017