What's Left of Philosophy

136 TEASER | What’s the Point of Equality? Meditations on Post-Socialist Analytical Philosophy

In this episode, we talk about the relational paradigm in political philosophy. Made famous by Iris Marion Young, developed later by Elizabeth Anderson, this view of what equality is all about present...

2026-06-10

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135 | The Ambiguities of Reconstruction w/ Professor Lucien Ferguson

In this episode, we are joined by Assistant Professor of Law Lucien Ferguson (Chicago-Kent College of Law) to discuss the ambiguities of freedom and labor in the constitutional interpretation of the ...

2026-05-28

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UPCOMING STUFF! | SPEP Webinar on Environmental Philosophy | BISR Class on Anti-Oedipus

Just a quick word about upcoming events you should join us for! SPEP Webinar: Philosophy and Environmental Injustices, with Matthias Fritsch, Romy Opperman, and Michael Peterson, May 25, 5pm Eastern ...

2026-05-18

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134 TEASER | The Problem with Work

In this episode we discuss Kathi Weeks’ 2011 book The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. The text brings together social reproduction feminism and autono...

2026-05-13

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133 | Indigenous Struggles Beyond the Colonial Politics of Recognition: Glen Coulthard's Red Skin, White Masks

This episode engages with Glen Coulthard’s 2014 book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Coulthard weaves a rich and varied tradition of radical Indigenous thought a...

2026-04-25

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132 TEASER | Marxism and Religion, Part II: The Gospel According to Terry Eagleton

In this episode, we discuss Terry Eagleton’s defense of religion. We focus on his diagnoses of the Enlightenment, modernism, and post-modernism as different kinds of post-religious movements. Post-mod...

2026-04-06

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131 | What's Left of Black Politics? Brandon Terry's Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

In this episode, we discuss Brandon Terry’s 2025 book Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement. There is little doubt that in US the Civil Rights Movement stands o...

2026-03-23

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130 | Max Horkheimer: What Makes Critical Theory Critical?

In this episode we talk about Max Horkheimer’s essay “Traditional and Critical Theory”, which serves as a kind of manifesto for the Frankfurt School of Marxist thought. We talk about how he defines th...

2026-03-06

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129 TEASER | The General Strike and Socialism: Sorel's Reflections on Violence

In this episode we discuss Georges Sorel’s 1908 Reflections on Violence. We focus on his central claim that all of socialism is concentrated in the idea or ‘picture’ of the general strike, scrutinizin...

2026-02-16

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129 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this episode, we introduce our new series on “Marxism and Religion.” At political, social, and spiritual levels, the series explores this complicated relationship for a transitioning age. We start ...

2026-01-29

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127 | Hayden White's Forms of History

In this episode, we discuss the work of historian Hayden White. His provocative claim is that the practice is inescapably the practice of narrative forms to give sense and significance to events of th...

2026-01-14

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126 | Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program

In this episode, we talk about Marx’s critique of the Gotha Program, but you knew that from the title. We discuss Marxian critiques of redistributive left politics, why dogmatic Marxists are wrong abo...

2025-12-29

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125 TEASER | Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power

In this episode, we talk about Elias Canetti’s 1960 book Crowds and Power. Equal parts political theory, poetic sociology, and speculative anthropology, this staggering work explores human social life...

2025-12-04

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124 | Living Through Capitalism w/ Dr. James Chamberlain

In this episode, we talk with James Chamberlain about his new book, Living Through Capitalism, in which he argues that capitalism is hostile to biological life processes and our ability to know them w...

2025-11-19

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123 | Adam Smith and the Lessons of Sympathy

In this episode, we take on Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Although he is now more well known as an economist because of his later book The Wealth of Nations, Smith shows himself to be a...

2025-11-04

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122 | Real Abstraction and the Origin of Consciousness with Alfred Sohn-Rethel

In this episode, we talk about Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s audacious and influential text Intellectual and Manual Labor. A fellow traveler of the Frankfurt School, Sohn-Rethel argued that the social activity...

2025-10-14

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121 | The Federalist Papers

In this episode we discuss the essays of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton compiled as the Federalist Papers. We talk about the philosophical justifications of the recently signed US Constitution, ...

2025-10-02

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120 TEASER | Raymond Williams on Literature and Cultural Materialism

In this episode, we discuss the literary and cultural theories of Raymond Williams. Famous for classic works of literary analysis like The City and the Country and concepts like ‘structures of feeling...

2025-09-16

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119 | Exploitation and the Theory of Domination w/ Prof. Nicholas Vrousalis

In this episode, we welcome Nicholas Vrousalis onto the show to discuss his recent book Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust. The basic thesis of the book is that capitalist exploi...

2025-09-02

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What’s Left of Philosophy Live Show! August 7, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago

Our live show at the Epiphany Center for the Arts is right around the corner! Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 8. It’s a one-night only event, so don’t miss it! Get your tickets here: https:...

2025-08-04

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