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Joel Wainwright

Joel Wainwright

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Mar 25, 2026

BrettHOST
11:48
So kind of like from a bird's eye perspective, can you just kinda like pitch the book and let people know what you're trying to do in this one?
11:53
You bet.
11:53
So as the reader would guess from the title, this is a book about the end and what the end is and how we should think the end.
12:03
So that is to say that the book is about teleology in social analysis, which is to say how ideas and arguments are made that presuppose a certain end.
12:17
And one of the big arguments of the book is that Marx became an increasingly anti-teleological thinker as his life went on.And that Darwin helped him to arrive at that conclusion.
12:27
And there's some important political implications for that.
12:30
But regarding the structure of the book, uh, there, the book is written in three parts.

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BrettHOST
90:36
Mm-hmm.

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