‘A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy’ by Christoph Schuringa reviewed by Iñigo Baca Bordons (opens in new tab)

The success of Christoph Schuringa’s A Social History of Analytic Philosophy depends on whether its coordination of historical and philosophical material manages to be a non-reductionist ideological analysis: less of a polemic, and more of a conjunctural analysis of the political balance of forces within the discipline of philosophy; a reckoning with the ‘hegemonic form of academic philosophy in the English-speaking world and beyond’ (1). Attending to the history and social conditions of the ...