Christoph Schuringa
schuringa.bsky.social
Christoph Schuringa
@schuringa.bsky.social
I write about philosophy, e.g.:
Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso, 2025)
Except for this post ofc
December 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Absolutely. Though I know less about the post-Austinian life than you do, I think you’re right to be perplexed about precisely this
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Someone should propose an edited collection, The Linguistic Twirls
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Fair! It’s hard to say anything precise in this medium … just wanted to step in in case it seemed to others that the social turn was what I set out. As you say, I do recognize the increasing embrace of social topics
November 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
When it comes to the original question -- I think Austin himself recognized that pretty much anything done with speech is a speech act (including 'constatives'). Some fragments of speech might not be speech acts -- but they are likely to be fragments of such acts. In a way this is as it should be
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I actually don't think there is a 'social turn' in analytic philosophy (I have a chapter in my book trying to show that this is not the case). There *was* such a thing as a 'linguistic turn', although this was understood in a bewildering variety of ways (and I suspect the idea is itself a vague one)
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Reposted by Christoph Schuringa
"Was Marx a Philosopher"

Christoph Schuringa argues that Marx's overall project is concerned with raising philosophy itself to its highest power to actualize it, seeking to surpass predecessors including Hegel.

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Was Marx a Philosopher?
It is often thought that Marx, despite starting out as a philosopher, sought to break with philosophy in order to carry out his mature work. In this essay, Christoph Schuringa argues that Marx's overa...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM