Christoph Schuringa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4307026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph Schuringa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuringa |
| SIGNATURE | SCHURINGA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4451-0005 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy
It is indisputable that Marx began his intellectual trajectory as a philosopher, but it is often thought that he subsequently turned away from philosophy. In this book, Christoph Schuringa proposes a radically different reading of Marx's intellectual project and demonstrates that from his earliest writings his aim was the 'actualization' of philosophy. Marx, he argues, should be understood not as turning away from philosophy, but as seeking to ma…
Schelling’s Challenge
Second Nature, Phronēsis, and Ethical Outlooks
The expression ‘second nature’ can be used in two different ways. The first allows phronēsis (practical wisdom) to count as the sort of thing a second nature is. The second speaks of second natures as distinct ethical outlooks. I argue that a failure to distinguish these ways of speaking of ‘second nature’ is philosophically significant, in that we are thereby prevented from seeing that phronēsis stands on a different logical footing from ethical…
Thought and reality in Marx's early writings on ancient philosophy
There is little agreement about Marx's aims, or even his basic claims, in his Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy and Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature . Marx has been read as an idealist, or as a materialist; as praising Epicurus, or as criticizing him. Some have read Marx as using ancient philosophers as proxies in a contemporary debate, without demonstrating how he does so in detail. I show that Marx's dialect…
Hegel on spirited animals
Hegel conceives of human beings as both natural and spirited. On Robert Pippin's influential reading, we are natural by being ‘ontologically’ like other animals, but spirited through a ‘social-historical achievement’. I contest both the coherence of this reading and its fidelity to Hegel's texts. For Hegel the human being is the truth of the animal. This means that spirit's self-production is not, as Pippin claims, an achievement that an animal c…
The Act and Object of Judgment
The Cartesian first-person point of view regarding the certainty of our judgements seems to imply a form of subjectivism.Locke's solution to this problem is to widen the scope to a third-person point of view on the notion of judgement, thereby shaping the modern notion of belief.As a result the distinction between the normative notion of judgement and the empirical notion of belief are no longer distinguished, and epistemology and philosophy in g…
Act and Object of Judgment
Act and Object of Judgment
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
In his late work Nietzsche professed profound admiration for Dostoevsky, calling him “the only psychologist [...] from whom I had something to learn” (TI “Skirmishes” 45). He also said, characteristically complicating matters, “I am grateful to him in a remarkable way, however much he goes against my deepest instincts” (KGB III/5, letter 1151). There is, however, another well-established way of connecting the two authors, due to the Symbolist wri…
Nihilistisches Geschichtsdenken
As early as 1941, George Allen Morgan wrote that Nietzsche's thought is “saturated with the historical point of view.”1 It is breathtaking how long it has taken scholarly writing on Nietzsche to catch up with Morgan and pay this aspect of Nietzsche's thought the serious attention it deserves. Marcus Andreas Born's study is therefore a very welcome development as a serious and engaged examination of Nietzsche's “historical thought.”As his subtitle…
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Nihilistisches Geschichtsdenken
As early as 1941, George Allen Morgan wrote that Nietzsche's thought is “saturated with the historical point of view.”1 It is breathtaking how long it has taken scholarly writing on Nietzsche to catch up with Morgan and pay this aspect of Nietzsche's thought the serious attention it deserves. Marcus Andreas Born's study is therefore a very welcome development as a serious and engaged examination of Nietzsche's “historical thought.”As his subtitle…
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky
In his late work Nietzsche professed profound admiration for Dostoevsky, calling him “the only psychologist [...] from whom I had something to learn” (TI “Skirmishes” 45). He also said, characteristically complicating matters, “I am grateful to him in a remarkable way, however much he goes against my deepest instincts” (KGB III/5, letter 1151). There is, however, another well-established way of connecting the two authors, due to the Symbolist wri…
The Act and Object of Judgment
The Cartesian first-person point of view regarding the certainty of our judgements seems to imply a form of subjectivism.Locke's solution to this problem is to widen the scope to a third-person point of view on the notion of judgement, thereby shaping the modern notion of belief.As a result the distinction between the normative notion of judgement and the empirical notion of belief are no longer distinguished, and epistemology and philosophy in g…
Act and Object of Judgment
Act and Object of Judgment
Second Nature, Phronēsis, and Ethical Outlooks
The expression ‘second nature’ can be used in two different ways. The first allows phronēsis (practical wisdom) to count as the sort of thing a second nature is. The second speaks of second natures as distinct ethical outlooks. I argue that a failure to distinguish these ways of speaking of ‘second nature’ is philosophically significant, in that we are thereby prevented from seeing that phronēsis stands on a different logical footing from ethical…
Thought and reality in Marx's early writings on ancient philosophy
There is little agreement about Marx's aims, or even his basic claims, in his Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy and Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature . Marx has been read as an idealist, or as a materialist; as praising Epicurus, or as criticizing him. Some have read Marx as using ancient philosophers as proxies in a contemporary debate, without demonstrating how he does so in detail. I show that Marx's dialect…
Hegel on spirited animals
Hegel conceives of human beings as both natural and spirited. On Robert Pippin's influential reading, we are natural by being ‘ontologically’ like other animals, but spirited through a ‘social-historical achievement’. I contest both the coherence of this reading and its fidelity to Hegel's texts. For Hegel the human being is the truth of the animal. This means that spirit's self-production is not, as Pippin claims, an achievement that an animal c…
Schelling’s Challenge
Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy
It is indisputable that Marx began his intellectual trajectory as a philosopher, but it is often thought that he subsequently turned away from philosophy. In this book, Christoph Schuringa proposes a radically different reading of Marx's intellectual project and demonstrates that from his earliest writings his aim was the 'actualization' of philosophy. Marx, he argues, should be understood not as turning away from philosophy, but as seeking to ma…
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