What's Left of Philosophy

89 TEASER | G.A. Cohen's Analytical Red Sublime


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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 we talk about what this tradition in Marxist thinking is about and how it handles the problems of political let-down and disillusionment that affect us all. We also get into his polemics against the libertarians and John Rawls in his essays on exploitation, freedom, and justice.

This is just a short clip from the full episode, which is available to our subscribers on Patreon:

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References:

G.A. Cohen, Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989).

G.A. Cohen, “The Labor Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 8(4)(1979): 338-360.

G.A. Cohen, “The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 12(1)(1983): 3-33.

G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).

Nicholas Vrousalis, The Political Philosophy of G.A. Cohen (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

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