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Integral [+] Facticity

Last entry 2 November 2026

Podcast1 h 18 min

Daniel Tutt on Religion, Family, & the Future of the Left

Integral [+] Facticity, episode 19 of 21, with Daniel Tutt

First published on Acast, 19 July 2023, with show notes on Medium. All 21 episodes

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  2. Description
  3. Original episode
  4. References & Further Reading
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Overview

A discussion of family, dependence and class within contemporary Marxist political theory. Daniel Tutt examines the legacy of 1968, critiques of post-Marxism and the left’s relationship to religious and conservative constituencies. Related topics include early American Marxism and pragmatism, Nietzschean ressentiment, solidarity, Christian socialism, Lukács, Jung and the possibility of Marxist humanism.

Description

Few subjects expose the tensions of the contemporary left as sharply as the family. Daniel Tutt's work challenges the anti-familial legacy of 1968 and asks how dependence, class and solidarity might be understood differently. Daniel joins me to recount a working-class, politically conservative upbringing, his engagement with Islam and anti-Iraq War politics, and his intellectual path through Slavoj Žižek at the European Graduate School and a dissertation under Alain Badiou. He describes his doubts about post-Marxism and the argument of his book on the family.

From those beginnings, we turn to the role of pragmatism in early American Marxism, the new right and Nietzschean ressentiment, and why Daniel believes the left must be able to speak to conservatives. We also consider love as solidarity in shared struggle, Marx on Christian socialism, Lukács on irrationalism, Carl Jung and Jordan Peterson, and whether Marxism can recover humanism.

Original episode

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Daniel Tutt on Religion, Family, & the Future of the Left
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1 h 18 min
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Daniel Tutt
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Integral [+] Facticity, episode 19 of 21

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