What's Left of Philosophy
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What's Left of Philosophy
In What’s Left of Philosophy Gil Morejón (@gdmorejon), Lillian Cicerchia (@lilcicerch), Owen Glyn-Williams (@oglynwil), and William Paris (@williammparis) discuss philosophy’s radical histories and contemporary political theory. Philosophy isn't dead, but what's left? Support us at patreon.com/lefto...
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122 | Real Abstraction and the Origin of Consciousness with Alfred Sohn-Rethel
In this episode, we talk about Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s audacious and influential text Intellectual and Manual Labor. A fellow traveler of the Frankfurt S...
121 | The Federalist Papers
In this episode we discuss the essays of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton compiled as the Federalist Papers. We talk about the philosophical justi...
120 TEASER | Raymond Williams on Literature and Cultural Materialism
In this episode, we discuss the literary and cultural theories of Raymond Williams. Famous for classic works of literary analysis like The City and th...
119 | Exploitation and the Theory of Domination w/ Prof. Nicholas Vrousalis
In this episode, we welcome Nicholas Vrousalis onto the show to discuss his recent book Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust. The...
What’s Left of Philosophy Live Show! August 7, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago
Our live show at the Epiphany Center for the Arts is right around the corner! Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 8. It’s a one-night only event...
118 | Axel Honneth and the Ideal of Social Freedom
In this episode we discuss Axel Honneth’s Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life. As one of the most prominent representatives of...
117 | Hardt and Negri's Empire, 25 Years Later
In this episode, we discuss Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire. First published in 2000, this seminal post-Marxist text analyzed changes to powe...
116 TEASER | Are We Losing our Morality? Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and the Nihilism of Modern Society
In this episode, we discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s landmark book After Virtue. MacIntyre, an ex-Marxist and committed anti-liberal, offers a defense of...
WLOP LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT! | AUGUST 7 | EPIPHANY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, CHICAGO
Hi everyone! We are thrilled to announce that we will be performing live on August 7 at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago.
This is a o...
Gil is Teaching a Class on Spinoza's Ethics in Chicago
That's right, folks! Next month, Gil is teaching a class on Spinoza's Ethics at Twelve Ten Gallery in Chicago through the Brooklyn Institute for Socia...
115 | Modern Barbarism with Thorstein Veblen
In this episode, we talk about Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. In it, he argues that modern culture is basically continuous with that...
114 | What's Left of Representation?
In this episode, we discuss the centrality of ‘representation’ in politics and political theory, guided by Hanna Pitkin’s 1967 treatise The Concept of...
113 TEASER | Political Marxism
In this episode, we discuss “political marxism” as a paradigm shift in Marxist thinking about historical development, the transition from feudalism to...
112 | Excavating Utopias w/ Dr. William Paris
In this episode, we discuss WLOP co-host William Paris’s recently published book Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipati...
111 TEASER | Infantile Disorders: The Coming Insurrection
In this episode, we discuss the 2007 text The Coming Insurrection, written by the pseudonymous collective The Invisible Committee. We talk about the b...
110 | What is Liberalism? Part VI. Possessive Individualism and the Collapsing Order
In this episode, the boys talk about C.B. Macpherson’s insightful text The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. Macpherson holds that liberal...
109 | Should We Abolish Prisons? w/ Dr. Tommie Shelby
In this episode, we are joined by special guest Tommie Shelby to discuss the arguments presented in his most recent book, The Idea of Prison Abolition...
Will Has Published a Book!
This is a short promo for Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation (Oxford University Press, 2025), written by WLOP’s v...
108 TEASER | Friedrich Nietzsche on Learning How to Live in a Dying Culture
In this episode, we tackle Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. In this book, Nietzsche diagnoses the cultural pathologies of a Europe that no...
Gil is Teaching a Class on Kant's First Critique in Chicago
You read the title! Next month, Gil is teaching a class on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason at the Goethe Institute in downtown Chicago through the Broo...
107 | How Labor Can Win w/ Eric Blanc
In this episode, we discuss Eric Blanc’s new book about the strategies re-building U.S. labor today, as well as how they can translate across movement...
106 | Karl Polanyi and the Critique of Market Society
In this episode, we discuss the work of brilliant heterodox economist Karl Polanyi. We talk about his criticisms of neoclassical orthodoxy, his argume...
105 TEASER | Fredric Jameson: Marxist Criticism and the Role of Theory
In this episode, we discuss the work of the late, great Fredric Jameson. Basing ourselves on his Marxism and Form, The Political Unconscious, and Arch...
104 | Does History Have a Repetition Compulsion?
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Black Reconstruction, and The Black Jacobins. What do these three texts have in common? They all aim to ma...
103 | Habermania w/ Dr. Steven Klein
Another week, another German philosopher. This time, Steven Klein joins us to discuss the ideas and legacy of one Jürgen Habermas. We talk about his e...
102 TRAILER | The Heidegger Episode
Here, we finally deliver on our longstanding threat to do an episode all about influential philosopher Martin Heidegger. We give him credit where it’s...
101 | Free Time Under Capitalism
In this episode, we discuss Theodor Adorno’s essay “Free Time”, in which the critical theorist really lets his cantankerous old man flag fly. He argue...
100 | Special Q+A Livestream!
For this very special 100th episode of the show, we set aside a few hours to answer questions submitted by listeners! We livestreamed the session on o...
100th Episode Livestream Announcement | Ask Us Anything!
Some news! We are going to livestream our 100th episode recording session at 1pm Eastern / 12 noon central standard time on our YouTube channel on Sun...
99 | What is Dialectics? Part VI: From Explanation to Emancipation: Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism
In this episode, we discuss the philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar and his essays in Reclaiming Reality. We discuss whether it is possible for the hum...
98 TEASER | Reform or Revolution?
In this episode we take on a Marxist classic, Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform or Revolution,” in which she skewers Eduard Bernstein for being a feckless oppo...
97 | Poulantzas, Marxism and the State
In this episode we take up the question: what is the State? With 1978’s State, Power, Socialism by Nicos Poulantzas as our guide, we talk about what i...
96 TEASER | What is Utopia? Part IV. Bacon's New Atlantis
In this episode we talk about the weird little unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis, written by founding enlightenment figure Francis Bacon. We t...
95 | John Dewey and the Education of Experience
In this episode, we discuss the educational philosophy of the American pragmatist John Dewey. Focusing on his 1938 treatise Experience & Education we...
94 | Norman Geras' Ethics of Revolution
In this episode, we discuss the contributions of political theorist Norman Geras to socialist debates about revolutionary ethics, movement democracy,...
93 TEASER | Charles Mills and the Racial Contract
In this episode, we talk about the late, great Charles Mills and his landmark book The Racial Contract. Forcefully arguing that the modern discourse o...
92 | What is Liberalism? Part V. Robert Nozick’s Libertarian Reveries
In this episode, we discuss Robert Nozick’s libertarian political philosophy as presented in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. We consider his...
91 | Fanon’s Dialectic of Violence
In this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Eart...
90 | Ecological Materialism and Logistical Strategy w/ Dr. Jeff Diamanti
In this episode, we are joined by Jeff Diamanti to discuss what it looks like to watch the climate change. Our conversation shifts from analytical, ae...
89 TEASER | G.A. Cohen's Analytical Red Sublime
In this episode, we discuss essays from throughout G.A. Cohen’s philosophical career. Cohen is known as one of the founders of Analytical Marxism, so...