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What's Left of Philosophy — 150 episodes
141 TEASER | Badiou: Political Subjects and Infinite Truths
140 | What is Modernity? Part II: Decoloniality
139 TEASER | What is Modernity? Part I: Marshall Berman and the Contradictions of Modern Experience
138 | Machinic Intelligence and Marxism
137 | Althusius: Communitarianism Before Hobbes
136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy
135 | The Ambiguities of Reconstruction w/ Professor Lucien Ferguson
UPCOMING STUFF! | SPEP Webinar on Environmental Philosophy | BISR Class on Anti-Oedipus
134 TEASER | The Problem with Work
133 | Indigenous Struggles Beyond the Colonial Politics of Recognition: Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks
132 TEASER | Marxism and Religion, Part II: The Gospel According to Terry Eagleton
131 | What's Left of Black Politics? Brandon Terry's Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
130 | Max Horkheimer: What Makes Critical Theory Critical?
129 TEASER | The General Strike and Socialism: Sorel's Reflections on Violence
129 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr.
127 | Hayden White's Forms of History
126 | Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program
125 TEASER | Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power
124 | Living Through Capitalism w/ Dr. James Chamberlain
123 | Adam Smith and the Lessons of Sympathy
122 | Real Abstraction and the Origin of Consciousness with Alfred Sohn-Rethel
121 | The Federalist Papers
120 TEASER | Raymond Williams on Literature and Cultural Materialism
119 | Exploitation and the Theory of Domination w/ Prof. Nicholas Vrousalis
What’s Left of Philosophy Live Show! August 7, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago
118 | Axel Honneth and the Ideal of Social Freedom
117 | Hardt and Negri's Empire, 25 Years Later
116 TEASER | Are We Losing our Morality? Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and the Nihilism of Modern Society
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Gil is Teaching a Class on Spinoza's Ethics in Chicago
115 | Modern Barbarism with Thorstein Veblen
114 | What's Left of Representation?
113 TEASER | Political Marxism
112 | Excavating Utopias w/ Dr. William Paris
111 TEASER | Infantile Disorders: The Coming Insurrection
110 | What is Liberalism? Part VI. Possessive Individualism and the Collapsing Order
109 | Should We Abolish Prisons? w/ Dr. Tommie Shelby
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108 TEASER | Friedrich Nietzsche on Learning How to Live in a Dying Culture
Gil is Teaching a Class on Kant's First Critique in Chicago
107 | How Labor Can Win w/ Eric Blanc
106 | Karl Polanyi and the Critique of Market Society
105 TEASER | Fredric Jameson: Marxist Criticism and the Role of Theory
104 | Does History Have a Repetition Compulsion?
103 | Habermania w/ Dr. Steven Klein
102 TRAILER | The Heidegger Episode
101 | Free Time Under Capitalism
100 | Special Q+A Livestream!
100th Episode Livestream Announcement | Ask Us Anything!
99 | What is Dialectics? Part VI: From Explanation to Emancipation: Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism
98 TEASER | Reform or Revolution?
97 | Poulantzas, Marxism and the State
96 TEASER | What is Utopia? Part IV. Bacon's New Atlantis
95 | John Dewey and the Education of Experience
94 | Norman Geras' Ethics of Revolution
93 TEASER | Charles Mills and the Racial Contract
92 | What is Liberalism? Part V. Robert Nozick’s Libertarian Reveries
91 | Fanon’s Dialectic of Violence
90 | Ecological Materialism and Logistical Strategy w/ Dr. Jeff Diamanti
89 TEASER | G.A. Cohen's Analytical Red Sublime
88 | On Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano
87 | The Politics of Left-Wing Climate Realism w/ Dr. Ajay Singh Chaudhary
86 | Right-Wing Political Thought w/ Dr. Matt McManus
85 TEASER | Giving an Account of Oneself: Judith Butler's Ethics of Opacity
84 | Sex in Philosophy w/ Dr. Manon Garcia
83 | What is Aesthetics? Part III. Ernst Bloch: In Search of the Red Sublime
82 | The State and Right: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
81 TEASER | David Harvey: Capitalist Urbanization and the Right to the City
80 | Grab Bag Special Episode with Michael Peterson! Utilitarian Harems, Nietzschean Ciphers, and Cowardly Chatbots
79 | What Could It Mean to Say, “Capitalism Causes Sexism and Racism”? with Professor Vanessa Wills
78 | Perry Anderson's Considerations on Western Marxism
77 | What is Ecosocialism? Part I. John Bellamy Foster and the Metabolic Rift
76 | For and Against Participatory Planning & Economics
75 TEASER | Power, Reason, and Justification: Rainer Forst’s Critical Theory
74 | Time and Work Discipline with E.P. Thompson
73 | Effective Altruism is Terrible w/ John Duncan
72 | Gerrard Winstanley and the English Revolution
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71 TEASER | What is Liberalism? Part IV: Neo-Republicanism
70 | How Does Propaganda Work? w/ Dr. Megan Hyska
69 | Mute Compulsion: Economic Power and Capitalist Domination w/ Dr. Søren Mau
68 | F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: Competition, Individualism, and the Politics of Reaction
67 TEASER | What is Liberalism? III. John Rawls and Political Liberalism
66 | What's Left of Equality? Between Opportunity and Flourishing
65 | Gramsci's The Modern Prince
64 | What is Aesthetics? Part II. How Does it Feel to be a Problem, Hip Hop Nation? W/ Dr. Michael Thomas
63 Teaser | Lenin's State and Revolution
62 | What is Aesthetics? Part I. Schiller's Letters on Aesthetic Education
61 | Frantz Fanon, Racism, and the Alienation of Reason
60 | Antifascism and Emancipatory Violence with Devin Zane Shaw
59 | Herbert Marcuse B-Sides Mixtape
58 Teaser | Angela Davis: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation
UNLOCKED: 24 | What's Left of Foucault?
57 | What is Liberalism? Part II. Policing and Political Economy
56 | Special Minisode: Hating on New Year’s Day with Antonio Gramsci
55 Teaser | Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality
54 | Expropriating the Expropriators w/ Dr. Jacob Blumenfeld
53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
52 | Mike Davis: Historical Materialism and Militant Theory
51 Teaser | What is Utopia? Part III. Hermeneutics and Utopia: From Hans-Georg Gadamer to Ernst Bloch (Part 2)
50 | Hermeneutics and Utopia: From Hans-Georg Gadamer to Ernst Bloch (Part 1)
49 | Coming to Terms with Human Finitude w/ Prof. Martin Hägglund
48 | Gillian Rose: Speculative Thinking and Post-Kantian Sociology with James Callahan
47 | Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle
46 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part V: Adorno's Negative Dialectics
45 | On Solidarity and Conflict with Nathan DuFord
44 | Karl Kautsky's Cooperative Commonwealth
43 | Transindividuality and Marxism with Jason Read
42 | Going Beyond the Pleasure Principle with Freud
41 | James Boggs and the Problem of Rights under Capitalism
40 Teaser | What is Liberalism? Part I. John Locke's Second Treatise of Government
39 | Lukács: Social Totality and the Commodity Form
38 | Liberal Democracy in Crisis: Carl Schmitt and the Present
37 Teaser | What’s the ‘Structural’ in ‘Structural Injustice’?: Iris Marion Young and Political Philosophy
36 | What is Utopia? Part II. Plato's Republic (with Owen Alldritt)
35 | Moral Luck and Pedagogy (with Aaron Rabinowitz)
34 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part IV: Dialectic of Enlightenment with Adorno and Horkheimer
33 | (Un)Learning How to Do Politics with Hannah Arendt
32 | What is Equality? Disagreeing with Jacques Rancière
31 | Raymond Geuss: Realism in Political Theory
30 | What is Utopia? Part I. Thomas More: Critical Realism in a Time of Enclosure
29 | Sartre and the Question of Philosophy
28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques Derrida
27 | Crisis and Utopian Consciousness
26 | Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin w/ Dr. Ashley Bohrer
25 | Reflections on Freedom and the Cold War w/ Dr. Lea Ypi
24 Teaser | What's Left of Foucault?
23 | How Does a Democracy Keep its Character? Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition w/ Prof. Melvin Rogers
22 | The Meaning of Disability (with Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds)
21 | What is Critical Theory Doing? w/ Dr. Prof. Robin Celikates
20 | David Walker and the Politics of Judgment
19 | Machiavelli: Cunning, Fortune, and Republican Virtue
18 | Spinoza: Necessity, Ethics, Joy
17 Teaser | What is Dialectics? Part III: What's the Deal with Marx, Anyway?
16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science
15 | What is Dialectics? Part II: We Need to Talk about Hegel
14 | Thomas Hobbes Hates Your Book Club
13 | What is Dialectics? Part I. The Crew Gets Kant-Pilled
12 Teaser | Gustav Landauer: Anarchism, Utopia, Community
11 | Climate Politics and Global Justice (with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò)
10 | Donna Haraway: Socialist Cyborg Affinities
9 | C.L.R. James: Leadership, Organization, Mass Politics (with Dr. William Clare Roberts)
8 | (Neo)colonialism and Anticolonialism
7 | Why Does Class Matter?
6 | What's Left of Positivism (with Dr. Liam Kofi Bright)
5 Teaser | Beauvoir: Existentialism and Liberation
4 | Security, Supreme Concept of Bourgeois Society?
3 | Laclau and Mouffe, or How we learned to hate class and love Derrida
2 | Stuart Hall: What are the politics of culture?
1 | Althusser: Marxism and Philosophy