How Philosophy Lost Its Nerve And How Marx Put It Back To Work with Christoph Schuringa

How Philosophy Lost Its Nerve And How Marx Put It Back To Work with Christoph Schuringa

March 16, 2026 · 2h 24m · Season 2 · Episode 63

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The episode discusses the historical split in philosophy and how Marx revitalized its political dimensions.

A century ago, philosophy split its seams. Cambridge’s revolt against British Hegelianism promised “clarity,” Vienna’s scientific modernism tried to rebuild from scratch, and postwar America professionalized it all while quietly erasing the politics that once burned at the core. We invited Christoph Schuringa, editor of Hegel Bulletin and author of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy and Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, to map the break—and to argue why Marx didn’t abandon p...

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