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About Stephen Dozeman
Nurse, reader, occasional writer. Author of Being Possible (Resource 2020). Studied philosophy, art history and gender studies at Calvin College, nursing at Madison Area Technical College. Interested in existentialism, critical social theories and cultural and literary analysis.NBN Episodes hosted by Stephen:
February 23, 2026
Being and Time
A full century ago, a young and relatively unknown philosophy instructor in a small town in Germany would publish a book that would be swiftly pic…
February 16, 2026
Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action
Marxists have an obvious interest in understanding social movements. Less obvious, even with the voluminous theoretical archives at hand, is how to pu…
January 14, 2026
In Stalin's Shadow
Most people on the contemporary left see Stalin as an unfortunate stain on the history of the global left, a part of the historical process that w…
December 1, 2025
The Renaissance of Marxist Studies
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and related fields, and many researchers have been stepping up t…
November 23, 2025
Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis
Thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it is hard to think of him without imagining him in very particular contexts. One will likely…
October 20, 2025
The Antagonistic Principle
What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Po…
September 4, 2025
Signs from the Future
Returning to NBN is the philosopher Santiago Zabala, here to introduce his new book Signs from the Future: A Philosophy of Warnings (Columbia Univ…
August 11, 2025
Bohemian Bolsheviks
For several decades now, Alan Wald has been thoroughly documenting the history of the literature and cultural output of the American left. While h…
July 30, 2025
Marx's Wager
Marx’s Capital looms large today, a century and a half after first publication, a massive tome that attempts to document and map out the dynamics …
February 12, 2025
Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the intellectual landscape. One of its most central th…
January 17, 2025
The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution
The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest and urgency to questions of racial oppression and emancipation. We’ve now had about a decade of …
October 8, 2024
A Deep Dive on Karl Marx's "Capital"
Over 150 years ago, Marx published the first volume of Capital, a systematic and voluminous account of capitalism, from the economic bedrock all t…
August 4, 2024
The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky
Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). S…
June 22, 2024
Infinite Greed
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible inter…
June 18, 2024
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actuall…
May 25, 2024
Care
During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled throu…
March 20, 2024
Lenin's Childhood
On January 21, 1924 and at the age of 53, Vladimir Lenin passed away. We’ve now had a century of a world without him, but also a century of a worl…
December 31, 2023
The Politics of Transindividuality
Many major political questions today revolve around questions of human nature; what sort of people we are and what sort of people we're capable of bei…
November 23, 2023
Lenin
Returning to the New Books Network today is Paul Le Blanc, here to discuss his new book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution (Pluto…
November 15, 2023
Theology, Horror and Fiction
When one thinks of your typical horror movie and it’s usual imagery, a number of tropes may come forward. Graveyards behind old cathedrals, crucif…
June 9, 2023
Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn
As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing soc…
March 28, 2023
Class Warrior
The socialist activist E. T. Kingsley occupies an odd place in the history of labor and the left. Often mentioned due to his prolific life of spea…
March 21, 2023
Combat Trauma
One of the most recognizable tropes in American society in the past few decades is the scarred war veteran, returning from foreign lands with woun…
February 6, 2023
In Kierkegaard's Garden with the Poppy Blooms
The philosophy of deconstruction, most famously pushed forward by Jacques Derrida, has left an undeniable dent on contemporary thought, and even r…