Christoph Schuringa

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Christoph Schuringa
Education
EducationKing's College, Cambridge (BA)
Courtauld Institute of Art (MA)
Birkbeck, University of London (PhD)
Philosophical work
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsNortheastern University London
Main interestsGerman philosophy
Websitehttps://christophschuringa.com/

Christoph Schuringa (/ʃəˈrɪŋɡə/[1]) is a British philosopher and associate professor in philosophy at Northeastern University London. He is known for his works on German philosophy and has served as Editor of the Hegel Bulletin.[2][3][4][5]

Schuringa's 2025 book A Social History of Analytic Philosophy narrates the suppression of radical politics within American academic philosophy during and after the era of McCarthyism.[6] Kieran Setiya was critical of the book's thesis that analytic philosophy is inherently conservative.[7] Jacobin associate editor Nick French considered its argument that empiricist epistemology acts as an ideological defense of capitalism to be unpersuasive and impressionistic, and he added that analytic philosophy's attention to "conceptual distinctions ... regimented argument and ... individual experience" would be valuable for the left to adopt.[8]

Selected publications

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  • (ed. with Brian Ball), The Act and Object of Judgment: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (London/New York: Routledge 2019)
  • Schuringa, Christoph (2025). Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009304849. ISBN 978-1-009-30480-1.
  • A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy (Verso 2025)

References

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  1. ^ A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (feat. Christoph Schuringa) on YouTube
  2. ^ "Christoph Schuringa". Jacobin. 9 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Hegel and Marx with Christoph Schuringa". Cambridge Core.
  4. ^ "Christoph Schuringa". ABC Radio National.
  5. ^ Weinberg, Justin (10 January 2023). "Is Any of Analytic Philosophy's Dominance Owed to McCarthyism? - Daily Nous". Dailynous.
  6. ^ Daly, Patrick (2025-08-19). "New book dissects whether philosophy can be 'apolitical'". Northeastern Global News. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
  7. ^ Setiya, Kieran (2025-06-10). "The Politics of Apoliticism". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
  8. ^ French, Nick (2025-09-28). "Is Analytic Philosophy a Class Ideology?". Jacobin. Retrieved 2025-09-28.
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