BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

2025 / 2018 – Morton makes an admirable effort to expand the genre into something more appealing to a wide variety of readers…Instead of anxiously trying to troubleshoot all of the hypothetical ill-effects of proposed environmental action or policies

2023 – Part memoir, part philosophical exploration of the meaning of a life lived alongside and through other things, Morton asks us to think about the stuff, things, objects and buildings that have formed our realities and who we are and might be.

2021 – Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology. Part of a series from Penguin Books.

2021 – with Christopher Schaberg and Ian Bogost. Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture?

2019—A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans. What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever.

2018—With editors Lisa Stenmark & Whitney Bauman, and an Afterword by Timothy. This volume extends the insights of queer theory in order to unsettle or “queer” our understandings of “religion,” “science,” and the relationship between them.

2015 – With Marcus Boon & Eric Cazdyn. Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism’s global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy.

2013—Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”-entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place…Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think and how we coexist.

2012—In this book, Timothy Morton argues that all life forms are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, nor does “Nature” exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life.

2006—Providing a wide-ranging look at the state of existing scholarship, the Companion develops and enriches our understanding of Shelley. Significant new contributions include fresh assessments of Shelley’s narratives, his view of philosophy, and his role in views about ecology.

2006 – With Editor Marilyn Butler. Timothy Morton explores the significance of spice, and the spice trade, in Romantic literature, shedding new light on the impact of a growing consumer culture and capitalist ideology on writers of the period. The book surveys literary, political, medical, travel, trade and philosophical texts.

2006—With Editor Marilyn Butler. This groundbreaking study addresses the representation of food and drink in the works of Percy and Mary Shelley. With original studies of much-debated texts, it provides new perspectives in recent cultural history and theory concerning medicine and diet in the 1790 – 1820 period.