Fiction
Uncanny Soulscapes in Uncustomary Dreamscope — cover
2025 · English · Northwest Passage Books

Uncanny Soulscapes in Uncustomary Dreamscope

A work of intellectual play

Giorgio Baruchello

Sixty works of philosophical and literary experimentation, and avant-garde theatre.

Burloni animati in libera uscita — cover
2025 · Italian · Carlo Saladino Editore

Burloni animati in libera uscita

Satirical and semi-serious pieces in theoretical philosophy and analytic psychology

With G. Roberto Buccola

Written in Italian with a Jungian scholar, G.R. Buccola, the book toys with many forms of comic prose and witty composition to spur psychological and philosophical insights.

Non-fiction
Thinking and Laughing — cover
2025 · English · Northwest Passage Books

Thinking and Laughing

Collected Philosophical Essays

Sole author · sixth collection

Essays on the pedagogical and philosophical uses of humour, and works of humour about philosophy and wannabe teachers. The ideal bridge between fiction and non-fiction.

Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry — cover
2024 · English · Northwest Passage Books

Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry

Co-editor

A work of love and intellect to remember one of Canada's greatest thinkers.

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 3 / 2 — cover
2024 · English · De Gruyter · Studies in the Philosophy of Humor

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 3 / 2

Laughing Matters — Theses and Discussions

With Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Theses and discussions — the concluding companion to Vol. 3 / 1: How humour and cruelty can challenge each other; from laughing in the ghetto to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 3 / 1 — cover
2024 · English · De Gruyter · Studies in the Philosophy of Humor

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 3 / 1

Laughing Matters — Prolegomena

With Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Prolegomena to the third volume — what laughter can be, and what it can cost us.

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 2 — cover
2023 · English · De Gruyter · Studies in the Philosophy of Humor

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 2

Dangerous Liaisons

With Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Second volume — the mutual assistance of humour and cruelty across ethics, religion, politics, metaphysics, rhetoric, families, foibles, frailties, and the very meaning of our transient lives.

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 1 — cover
2022 · English · De Gruyter · Studies in the Philosophy of Humor

Humour and Cruelty · Vol. 1

A Philosophical Exploration of the Humanities and Social Sciences

With Ársæll Már Arnarsson

The history of "humour" and "cruelty" proper in philosophy and the social sciences.

Humour and Cruelty — the series — cover
2022 – 2024 · English · De Gruyter · Studies in the Philosophy of Humor

Humour and Cruelty — the series

A four-volume philosophical study

With Ársæll Már Arnarsson

Spanning across the humanities and social sciences, this four-volume study treats humour and cruelty not as opposites, but as recurrently and obstinately entangled phenomena.

Thinking and Talking — cover
2019 · English · Northwest Passage Books

Thinking and Talking

Collected Philosophical Essays

Sole author · fifth collection

Fifth collection — philosophical essays on epistemology, language, and rhetoric.

The Business of Life and Death · Vol. 2 — cover
2018 · English · Northwest Passage Books

The Business of Life and Death · Vol. 2

Politics, Law, and Society

Sole author · fourth collection

Second volume — politics, law, and society as life-and-death instruments and arenas.

The Business of Life and Death · Vol. 1 — cover
2018 · English · Northwest Passage Books

The Business of Life and Death · Vol. 1

Values and Economies

Sole author · third collection

First volume — how life-value onto-axiology sheds light on economics and economies.

Why Believe? — cover
2018 · English · The University of Akureyri

Why Believe?

Approaches to Religion

With Garrett Barden

A book for anyone reflecting seriously upon their own religious commitment, or lack of it.

No One Is An Island — cover
2018 · English · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

No One Is An Island

An Icelandic Perspective

Co-editor

Iceland's status and stakes in 21st-century Arctic, Nordic, and international affairs.

Philosophy of Cruelty — cover
2017 · English · Northwest Passage Books

Philosophy of Cruelty

Collected Philosophical Essays

Sole author · second collection

Collected essays on cruelty as a paradoxical yet pressing philosophical problem.

Mortals, Money, and Masters of Thought — cover
2017 · English · Northwest Passage Books

Mortals, Money, and Masters of Thought

Collected Philosophical Essays

Sole author · first collection

Collected essays on human finitude and the infinite value of life, not its price.

Ethics, Democracy, and Markets — cover
2016 · English · Nordic Summer University Press

Ethics, Democracy, and Markets

Nordic Perspectives on World Problems

Co-editor

Thirteen chapters written by Nordic scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and developed out of symposia held under the aegis of the Nordic Summer University.

Creation, Rationality and Autonomy — cover
2013 · English · Nordic Summer University Press

Creation, Rationality and Autonomy

Essays on Cornelius Castoriadis

Co-editor

Ten essays about one of the most original and creative political thinkers of the 20th century, based on symposia held under the aegis of the Nordic Summer University.

Understanding Cruelty: From Dante to Rorty — cover
2002 · English · University of Guelph

Understanding Cruelty: From Dante to Rorty

Doctoral dissertation

Giorgio Baruchello

The old, imperfect yet important doctoral work that, inter alia, led to Baruchello being awarded the 2003 D.F. Forster Medal. Completed under the supervision of Prof. John McMurtry, it initiated a long-running philosophical concern with cruelty: what it is, what it does and it doesn't do, why it persists in spite of all the alleged plans to do away with it, and why philosophical traditions and individual practitioners often fail to face it directly.