Paul Elias
PhD Social and Political Thought, York University.
Courses taught: AP/SOSC 2571 6.0A F/W: Introduction to Modern Social and Political Thought.
Academic background includes a focus on Marx’s social philosophy, German Idealism, ancient Greek thought, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis.
Current research interests include contemporary extreme politics and political polarization, ethnocentrism, nationalism, authoritarianism, social and political psychology, philosophy of mind and subjectivity, irrationality, politics of the far-right (“Alt-Right,” fascism and neo-fascism), phenomenological psychology, foundations of social theory, cross-and transdisciplinary methodological approaches, perspectives on practicing social philosophy.
Publications:
Review of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2019.
Review of Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International by Marcello Musto for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2018.
Review of Marx’s Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity by Guido Starosta for Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 2016.
Elias, Paul. “The relation of Marx’s humanist political economy to ideas of ‘divinity and humanity found in Plato and Aristotle,”International Review of Economics(IREC), vol. 63, no. 1, 2016, pp. 31-49.
Araujo, Chris, and Elias, Paul. “The Aesthetic Dimensions of Marx’s Anthropological and Political Thought,”Aesthetic Investigations,vol. 1, no. 2, 2016, pp. 227-291.