Christoph Schuringa

Philosopher & Writer

I am a philosopher and writer living in London, and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London.

I have recently published two books: A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso, 2025) and Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Books

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy

Verso, 2025

Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy

Cambridge University Press, 2025

Translations

Storia sociale della filosofia analitica: L'irresistibile ascesa di un pensiero impolitico, trans. Vincenzo Santarcangelo (Turin: Giulio Einaudi, forthcoming June 2026) — Italian translation of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy
Analytisk filosofi – en socialhistorisk granskning, trans. Öjvind Vågen (Stockholm: Fri Tanke, forthcoming November 2026) — Swedish translation of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy

Journal articles and book chapters

'Gattungswesen and Universality: Feuerbach, Marx and German Idealism', in L. Corti and J.-G. Schülein (eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature (Springer, 2023)
'Freedom and Hegel's Theory of the State', in J. Saunders (ed.), Freedom After Kant (Bloomsbury, 2023)
'Thought and Reality in Marx's Early Writings on Ancient Philosophy', European Journal of Philosophy 30 (2022): 1518–32
'Hegel on Spirited Animals', Philosophy 97 (2022): 485–508
'Second Nature, Phronēsis, and Ethical Outlooks', International Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 (2022): 1–18
'Marx's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right', Crisis and Critique 8/2 (2021): 346–67
'Critical History and Genealogy', in A. K. Jensen and C. Santini (eds.), Nietzsche on Memory and History (de Gruyter, 2021)
'Democracy and the Virus', The Philosophers' Magazine, August 2020
(ed. with Brian Ball), The Act and Object of Judgment (Routledge, 2019)
'Nature, Spirit and Second Nature: Hegel and McDowell', Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos (2018): 75–99
'Animal Laborans: Arendt and Weil on Marx', International Yearbook of Hermeneutics 17 (2018): 141–55
'La philosophie historique et la réévaluation des valeurs', in B. Binoche and A. Sorosina (eds.), Les Historicités de Nietzsche (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016)
'Nietzsche's Genealogical Histories and His Project of Revaluation', History of Philosophy Quarterly 31 (2014): 249–69
'Nietzsche and the Unfolding of Mind', Nietzscheforschung 20 (2013): 279–87
(with Ken Gemes), 'Nietzsche', in T. Angier (ed.), Ethics: The Key Thinkers (Bloomsbury, 2012)
'Nietzsche on History as Science', in H. Heit, G. Abel and M. Brusotti (eds.), Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie (de Gruyter, 2012)

Book Reviews

Peter Dews, Schelling's Late Philosophy in Confrontation with Hegel, New Left Review 143 (Sep/Oct 2023): 159–67
Karen Ng, Hegel's Concept of Life, Philosophy 96 (2021): 683–86
Terry Pinkard, Does History Make Sense?, European Journal of Philosophy 26 (2018)
Paolo Stellino, Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 48 (2017)
Marcus Andreas Born, Nihilistisches Geschichtsdenken, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (2013)
Hans Gerald Hödl, Der letzte Jünger des Philosophen Dionysos, Modern Language Review 107 (2012)
Robin Small, Time and Becoming in Nietzsche's Thought, Philosophy 86 (2011)

Selected Talks

Oct 2026The Unity of Science in Red Vienna. Conference "The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism", Vienna
11 Jun 2026Public lecture, Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich
9–10 Jun 2026Masterclass on A Social History of Analytic Philosophy. University of Zurich
Jun 2026The Actualization of Philosophy and Critical Theory. Hegel en perspectiva conference: "Hegel and the Critical Tradition". University of Valencia
12 May 2026Seminar on A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata
11 May 2026Seminar on Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata
8 May 2026Seminar on Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University, Venice
7 May 2026Seminar on A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University, Venice
6 May 2026Seminar on A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, University of Bologna
5 May 2026Seminar on Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, University of Bologna
1 May 2026Hegelian Endings. Workshop "The Political Dimension in Hegel's Aesthetics", School of Advanced Study, University of London
17 Apr 2026Some Notes on Capital and Schizoid Mechanisms. ISRF workshop, Birkbeck, University of London
18 Mar 2026Workshop on Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy. PKEP, University of Warwick
28 Jan 2026What's Wrong with Metaethics? Trinity College Dublin
5 Dec 2025Clarity and Rigour: The Case of Analytic Philosophy. CHPSAA, Université Paris Cité
25–26 Nov 2025Lecture and Workshop: Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy. Ruhr-Universität Bochum
9 Nov 2025Panel on A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (with Søren Mau, Julia Ng and Panagiotis Sotiris), Historical Materialism conference, London
8 Nov 2025Panel on Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy (with Bernardo Bárzana, Jacob Blumenfeld, Svenja Bromberg, Roberto Mozzachiodi and Andrés Saenz de Sicilia), Historical Materialism conference, London
24 Oct 2025A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (with response by James Connelly). Université catholique de Louvain
15 Oct 2025A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (discussion with Will Large). Gloucestershire Philosophical Society
25 Sep 2025We Need to Talk About … Analytic Philosophy. Universität Zürich (online)
19 Jul 2025The Work of Philosophy. Universität Leipzig
27 Jun 2025Responses to Greg Restall and Jade Fletcher. Symposium on A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, University of St Andrews
7 Jun 2025The Work of Philosophy. Universität Basel
7 Mar 2025Negation in Dialectic. University of Sussex
10 Dec 2024Attempt at a Collaboration: the Frankfurt School and the Vienna Circle. 'Politics and Values in Logical Empiricism', Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
6 Sep 2024Negation. Hegel Society of Great Britain conference, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
8 Aug 2024Roundtable on the social history of analytic philosophy. World Congress of Philosophy, Rome
26 Apr 2024Workshop on Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy. Universität Leipzig
23 Feb 2024Can There Be a Social History of Modal Logic? San José State University (online)
24 Jan 2024Approaching the Social History of Analytic Philosophy. Università di Torino
24 Nov 2023Anthropology and the Critique of Idealism in Feuerbach and Marx. Universität Heidelberg
28 Jun 2023Hegel, Marx, and the Actualization of Philosophy. 'Futures of Marx' conference, Universität Potsdam (Video)
28 Apr 2023Canonization and Its Discontents. 'Questioning "Western Philosophy"' conference, University of Oxford

Media

Radio

The Philosopher's Zone: Philosophy's problem with its history — ABC Radio National, Australia (June 2025)
Free Thinking: Amia Srinivasan and philosophical genealogy — with Amia Srinivasan and Catarina Dutilh Novaes, BBC Radio 3 (June 2022)
The Philosopher's Zone: The death of analytic philosophy? — ABC Radio National, Australia (June 2021)
Free Thinking: Hegel's Philosophy of Right — with Alison Stone, Gary Browning and Seán Williams, BBC Radio 3 (December 2020)

Podcasts

On analytic philosophy — Acid Horizon (July 2025)
On analytic philosophy — Emancipations with Daniel Tutt (June 2025)
On Marx — Hegel and Marx, discussion with Joe Saunders (November 2021)

Television

Discussing Marx on Sky News (July 2019)