About
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Email: jakub.kowalewski@stmarys.ac.uk
Biography
At St Mary’s, Jakub supports the development and delivery of Laudato Si' Champions, the workstream of the Guardians of Creation Project that focuses on integral ecology in Catholic schools, funded by the Assumption Legacy Fund.
Jakub is also a research fellow on the project exploring the distinctiveness of Catholic Multi-Academy Trusts, sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Cross Charitable Incorporated Organisation and St Mary’s University.
Jakub has an active research interest in eco-apocalypticism. He is the author of A Philosophy of Climate Apocalypticism: In and Against the World (Routledge 2025), and the editor of The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis (Routledge 2023).
Jakub holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Essex, and an MA and a BA also in Philosophy from the University of Sussex. He is a Laudato Si' Action Platform Sector Partner, the co-organiser of the London Conference in Critical Thought, and a member of the Executive Committee of Society for European Philosophy.
Research
Research profile
Books
Articles
- Rt Rev. Arnold, J.; Daw, R.; De Quay, E.; Gardner, E.; Kowalewski, J. “Ecology, energy, education: The journey of the Guardians of Creation Project.” Pastoral Review (forthcoming)
- Grey, C.; Kowalewski, J.”Sauver l’animal: perspectives de la théologie catholique” [“Saving the animal: perspectives of Catholic theology”], in L'Eglise et la cause animale: Vers une theologie chretienne des animaux, (ed.) É. Charmetant & E. Torres, Éditions Facultés Loyola Paris (2024)
- Kowalewski, J. “The shapes of apocalyptic time: decolonising eco-eschatology,” in The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis, Routledge (2022)
- Kowalewski, J. “Is negative political ontology fundamental? Phenomenology on the limits of Heideggerianism,” The Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology, vol. 1, no. 1, (2022 in English and Farsi)
- Kowalewski, J. “The transfiguration of spacetime: the concept of Tabor in the Hussite revolution and its implications for philosophy of history.” Praktyka Teoretyczna. Theoretical Practice, vol. 39, no. 1, (2021)
- Kowalewski, J. “Time and the unity of absolute consciousness.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 53, no. 3 (2021)
- Kowalewski, J. “The destitution of words: the death of the author and the aporias of writing in Levinas’s Totality and Infinity”. Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 1 (2018)
Reports, blogs, reviews
- Understanding Catholic parishioners' responses to the ecological crisis, Guardians of Creation Project Report, March 2023
- “The Science of the Last Things in Time of Climate Apocalypse.” Political Theology Network, Online Blog Symposium, Autumn 2023: Symposium Introduction; Decolonizing the Climate Apocalypse with Joachim of Fiore?
- In the Name of the Climate: On Throwing Stuff at Art, Blog of the American Philosophical Association, Ethical Issues in Public Philosophy series, July 2023
- Review of James Mensch, Selfhood and Appearing: The Intertwining, Brill 2018; Phenomenological Reviews, 2019
- Relationship Goals: The Distinctiveness of College HE in London, The Linking London Blog, June 2024
- The Availability and Clarity of HE Entry Requirement Information for T Level Applicants, The Linking London Blog, October 2023
- ‘Silver bullet’ or ‘missed opportunity’? The mixed response to the Advanced British Standard, The Linking London Blog, November 2023