Christoph Schuringa

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Analytic philosophy is the leading form of philosophy in the English-speaking world. What explains its continued success? Christoph Schuringa argues that its enduring power can only be understood by examining its social history. Analytic philosophy tends to think of itself as concerned with eternal questions, transcending the changing scenes of history. It thinks of itself as apolitical. This book, however, convincingly shows that the opposite is true.

The origins of analytic philosophy are in a set of distinct movements, shaped by high-ly specific sets of political and social forces. Only after the Second World War were these disparate, often dynamic movements joined together to make 'analytic philosophy' as we know it. In the climate of McCarthyism, analytic philosophy was robbed of political force.

To this day, analytic philosophy is the ideology of the status quo. It may seem arcane and largely removed from the real world, but it is a crucial component in upholding liberalism, through its central role in elite educational institutions. As Schuringa concludes, the apparently increasing friendliness of analytic philosophers to rival approaches in philosophy should be understood as a form of colonization; thanks to its hegemonic status, it reformats all it touches in service of its own imperatives, going so far as to colonize decolonial efforts in the discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804292129
• Artikelnr.: 73937166

Autorenporträt

Christoph Schuringa studied philosophy at King's College, Cambridge and Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely on the history of philosophy and on Marx and Marxism, and is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University, London. He is Editor of the Hegel Bulletin, and his writing has appeared in Jacobin, New Left Review, European Journal of Philosophy and elsewhere.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Elements of Analytic Philosophy
2. The ‘Rebellion Against Idealism’
3. The Unity of Science in Red Vienna
4. Ordinary Language in the Home of Dullness
5. The Making of Analytic Philosophy
6. Analytic and Continental
7. The Linguistic Turn and the Myth of Frege
8. Modal Logic and the Return of Metaphysics
9. Intuitions and Moral Mathematics
10. Colonizing Philosophy
Bibliography
Index