Marx & Philosophy Society

The Marx and Philosophy Society aims to encourage scholarly engagement with, and creative development of, the philosophical and foundational aspects of Marx’s work. The society welcomes contributions from any philosophical or political position.

Annual Conference

The annual conference of the Marx and Philosophy Society will be held in person on Saturday 8th June 2024 at the Institute of Education, London

Theme: Nature in Marxism

Main speakers:
Stefania Barca (University of Santiago de Compostela) ‘Workers of the earth: the ecologies of (waged and unwaged) labour in the Great Acceleration era’
Killian Favier (University College Dublin) ‘The ecological ambivalence of materialism’
Camilla Royle (Durham) ‘Engels and political ecology beyond the “revenge of nature’
Frédéric Monferrand (Paris 1) ‘A social ontology for political ecology: the historical naturalism of the young Marx’ (participating online)

Early career panel:
Alexander Drusda (University of Toronto) ‘Species-life in the Early Marx
Dominik Buhl (Humboldt University Berlin) ‘“Nature, too, awaits the revolution”: Herbert Marcuse’s outrageous call for the liberation of nature
Gauthier Delozière (Sciences Po Paris) ‘Reduce or valorize necessity? Environmental receptions of the relationship between necessity and freedom in Book III of Capital

Registration details to follow shortly.

Recently published

Jan Kandiyali (ed.) Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition, and Human Flourishing. A second collection of papers from Marx and Philosophy Society conferences, following the success of the first collection. Brings together distinguished and up-and-coming scholars to provide a major re-evaluation of historical issues in Marx scholarship and to connect Marx’s ideas with fresh debates in contemporary social and political philosophy. Among the topics discussed are Marx’s relationship to his philosophical predecessors—including Hegel, the young Hegelians, and the utopian socialists—his concept of recognition, his critique of liberalism, and his views on the good life. (20% discount).  See reviews by Tony Smith and Meade McCloughan.

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