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Meade McCloughan
Meade McCloughan has been studying philosophy for over 30 years and has taught at University College London and Birkbeck College London. He is on the organising group of the Marx and Philosophy Society.
Courses
Marx's Capital is one of the most famous and consequential books of the last two hundred years. Melding philosophy, political economy, history and more, delivered in a pungent literary style, it remains one of the classic accounts of the modern condition.
Apologist for the Prussian state? Proto-totalitarian? Or liberal? This course will cut through the misconceptions and present Hegel's political philosophy in its full complexity and subtlety, by means of a close reading of his Philosophy of Right (1821).
Apologist for the Prussian state? Proto-totalitarian? Or liberal? This course will cut through the misconceptions and present Hegel's political philosophy in its full complexity and subtlety, by means of a close reading of his Philosophy of Right (1821).
Kafka - beyond the Kafkaesque! A hundred years after Kafka's death, we will read his literary writings and explore their themes, and then assess the interpretations of Kafka provided by philosophers from Walter Benjamin to Jacques Derrida.