Christoph Schuringa is a fierce critic of the apolitical self-image of analytic philosophy. As Associate Professor at Northeastern University London and editor of Hegel Bulletin, he interrogates how analytic philosophy, despite its claims to timeless rigor, functions as a sociopolitical ideology rather than a neutral intellectual tradition.
In A Social History of Analytic Philosophy: How Politics Has Shaped an Apolitical Philosophy (2025), Schuringa traces how the discipline arose under specific political pressures—including McCarthyism—and argues that its dominance today upholds liberal elites by framing complex debates through a narrow, depoliticised lens. His scholarship reshapes our understanding of philosophy’s power: it’s not just abstract ideas but institutional forces born of history, class, and struggle.
"Schuringa’s book is unputdownable – applied to it, this term is not a cliché but a simple description of its effect on a reader.” — Slavoj Žižek
