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

About this episode

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...

People in this episode

Host: C. Derick Varn

Guest: Christoph Schuringa

Topics covered

• philosophy
• Marxism
• Hegelianism
• analytic philosophy
• politics
• history of ideas

Keywords

• philosophy
• Marx
• Hegel
• analytic philosophy
• politics
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy

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