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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
How can we make sense of our place in history? Are we moving forward, and if so, how and to what? Or should we instead be more concerned to look backwards? This course will examine how thinkers from Kant to Foucault have dealt with these questions.
Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating intellectual figures of the twentieth century. This course will consider his cultural criticism, politics, philosophy of history, theory of art, analysis of modern urban life – and more!
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.