At 1 PM CST on Sunday, November 1st, the Methexis Institute Forbidden Books reading group will discuss Christoph Schuringa's recent book "A Social History of Analytic Philosophy" (2025). Christoph Schuringa is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London.  An alumnus of King’s College, Cambridge, and Birkbeck, University of London, he serves as Editor of the Hegel Bulletin.    Schuringa develops an ideology critique that dismantles the "purity myth" of analytic philosophy, challenging its self-perception as an objective, apolitical enterprise concerned with eternal truths. Deploying a Marxist framework, he argues that the tradition’s global dominance is not a natural evolution of pure reason, but a product of historical contingency and geopolitical forces. The book traces how analytic philosophy originated from disparate, often politically charged European movements—such as the left-leaning logical positivists—before being unified in the United States after World War II. Under the stifling pressures of Cold War McCarthyism and state-sponsored military funding, the discipline was systematically stripped of its radical edge. It adapted by retreating into an abstract, hyper-technical methodology that avoided ideological scrutiny. Entrenched within elite educational institutions, its adversarial, neutral framing works to neutralize radical political thought. Even its modern, inclusive "social turn" is characterized as a form of intellectual colonization, reformatting decolonial and feminist movements to preserve current power structures. Please, if you can, read the Introduction and the first chapter (pp. 10-38). As ever, it is not required to read in advance to attend this group. drive.google.com/file/d/1t79… To join online, click here at the start of the meeting: meet.google.com/hyc-hsiz-vze

Listen to my introduction to a meta-critique of Nominalism in Walter Burley's 'On the Purity of the Art of Logic' for the @MethexisATX Forbidden Books club.