Brian Leiter and Jaime Edwards Discuss Marx on Dissenter Podcast
#1018 Brian Leiter & Jaime Edwards: The Life and Ideas of Marx
Dr. Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values. His teaching and research interests are in moral, political, and legal philosophy, in both the Anglophone and Continental European traditions, and the law of evidence.
Dr. Jaime Edwards is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches political philosophy.
They are authors of Marx.
In this episode, we focus on Marx. We start by talking a bit about Marx’s background and intellectual development. We then go through some of his main ideas, including historical materialism; class, class struggle, and class consciousness; the positive and negative aspects of capitalism; communism; human nature and the good life; alienation; and culture and ideology. We also talk about Marx’s legacy and influence, and discuss the Frankfurt School, Feminist Marxism, and aspects of Marxism that are still worth considering.
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