Dr Christoph Schuringa

Biography

I studied philosophy at King’s College, Cambridge and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and completed my PhD in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. I have recently published Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press) and A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso). For more information please see https://www.christophschuringa.com

Qualifications

PhD in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London (2012)

MA in History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (2008)

BA in Philosophy, University of Cambridge (2003)

Professional affiliations

Hegel Society of Great Britain (Executive Committee)

Marx & Philosophy Society (Organising Group)
London Post-Kantian Seminar (Steering Committee)
Action Network (Chicago Center for German Philosophy/Universität Leipzig)

Research

My primary research interests are in

• The history of philosophy (especially ancient philosophy and German idealism)
• Marx and Marxism
• Social and political thought.

Selected publications

A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (London: Verso, 2025)

Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

‘Was Marx a Philosopher?’, The Philosopher (2025)

‘Schelling’s Challenge’, New Left Review 143 (Sept/Oct 2023)

‘Gattungswesen and Universality: Feuerbach, Marx and German Idealism’, in L. Corti and J.-G. Schülein (eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature in Classical German Philosophy (Cham: Springer, 2023)

‘Freedom and Hegel’s Theory of the State’, in J. Saunders (ed.), Freedom After Kant (London: Bloomsbury, 2023)

‘Thought and Reality in Marx’s Early Writings on Ancient Philosophy’,  European Journal of Philosophy (2022)

‘Hegel on Spirited Animals’, Philosophy 97 (2022): 485–508 (open access)

‘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 (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2021)

‘Democracy and the Virus’, The Philosophers’ Magazine 90 (2020): 95–100

(ed. with Brian Ball), The Act and Object of Judgment: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives  (London/New York: 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 (Paris: 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

‘Nietzsche on History as Science’, in H. Heit, G. Abel and M. Brusotti (eds.), Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2012)