“In the book, I tried to do an ideology critique,” Schuringa tells Northeastern Global News, “which is to say give it a kind of Marxist treatment, where the idea is to look at the social and political cultural forces in society, and see how those have shaped this movement in philosophy.
...
“It’s like, ‘Well, these are the eternal questions that we are trying to ask and the political and cultural context just doesn’t matter.’ The idea is that you can evaluate arguments by just looking at how good the arguments are and not thinking about the context of the people that are making them.
...
That staying power has not always necessarily been a good thing, however, he concludes. Its commanding status means that “radical currents of thought” — he name-checks feminism and critical race theory — are “suppressed” when put through the lens of analytic philosophy.

Schuringa explains: “I think that those radical impulses, when they come into the analytic philosophy space, they get neutralized. They’re robbed of some of their radical force.”