What's Left of Philosophy
What's Left of Philosophy
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139 TEASER | What is Modernity? Part I: Marshall Berman and the Contradictions of Modern Experience
In this episode, we begin our new series on modernity with a discussion of Marshall Berman’s 1982 book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Some of the questions we will tackle in this series will address the ...
138 | Machinic Intelligence and Marxism
In this episode, we use Marx’s infamous “Fragment on Machines” from the Grundrisse as a starting-point for a wide ranging discussion about the emancipatory and regressive potentials of AI technologies. Marx thought that automated syste...
137 | Althusius: Communitarianism Before Hobbes
In this episode we talk about the political philosophy of early modern jurist Johannes Althusius. For us, he represents a road not taken in political theory, since Hobbes definitively constructed political philosophy around the idea of the self...
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 presents a puzzle for the class conscious. It says ...
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 Reconstruction Amendments that were pas...