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Eric Heinze on Critical Theory and the Left’s Blind Spots

Eric Heinze on Critical Theory and the Left’s Blind Spots

The Politics Guys

May 28, 202550m 45s

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Show Notes

Mike talks with Eric Heinze, professor at Queen Mary University of London and author of Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left

Topics Mike and Eric discuss include:

  • why critical theory resists a single definition

  • the Radical Critique of Western Liberal Democracythe left’s greatest legacy: redefining history as collective self-scrutiny

  • the left’s big blind spot

  • prospects for change

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