Staff profile

Jan Kandiyali joined Durham as an Assistant Professor in Political Theory 2021. He previously taught at the LSE (2019-2021) and Istanbul Technical University (2015-2019). His PhD is from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

Jan's interests are in political philosophy, ethics, and the history of political thought. He is currently working on a book entitled Karl Marx's Account of the Good Society, which is under contract with OUP. The book provides a new interpretation of Karl Marx's account of the good society, and defends that account both as an interpretation of Marx and as an independently appealing view. 

• Marx
• Political Philosophy
• Ethics

Authored book

• Kandiyali, J. (2018). Reassessing Marx's Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing. Routledge

Chapter in book

• Kandiyali, J., & Gomberg, P. Communism Shouldn't be Post-Work. In D. Celentano, M. Cholbi, J.-P. Deranty, & K. Schaff (Eds.), Debating a Post-Work Future: Perspectives from Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Routledge. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Kandiyali, J., & Kurtulmuş, F. Class, Inequality, and the Media. In C. Fox, & J. Saunders (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Philosophy and the Media. Routledge
• Kandiyali, J., & Chitty, A. (2023). "In and Through Their Association": Marx on Freedom and Communism. In J. Saunders (Ed.), Freedom After Kant. Bloomsbury
• Kandiyali, J. (2019). Historical Materialism: Marx. In J. Shand (Ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (236-260). Wiley
• Kandiyali, J. (2018). Western Europe. In J. Diamanti, A. Pendakis, & I. Szeman (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Bloomsbury
• Kandiyali, J. (2018). Marx and Schiller on Specialization and Self-Realization. In J. Kandiyali (Ed.), Reassessing Marx's Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition, and Human Flourishing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315398068

Journal Article

• Kandiyali, J. (2024). What makes communism possible? The self-realisation interpretation. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 23(3), 273-294. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x231219764
• Kandiyali, J. (2023). Sharing Burdensome Work. Philosophical Quarterly, 73(1), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac023
• Kandiyali, J. (2022). Should Socialists be Republicans?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2070834
• Kandiyali, J. (2022). Marx, Communism, and Basic Income. Social Theory and Practice, 48(4), 647-664. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202283169
• Kandiyali, J. (2021). Is Marx's Thought on Freedom Contradictory?. Critical Review, 33(2), 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2021.1984052
• Kandiyali, J. (2020). The Importance of Others: Marx on Unalienated Production. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, 130(4), 555-587. https://doi.org/10.1086/708536
• Kandiyali, J. (2017). Marx on the compatibility of freedom and necessity: A reply to David James. European Journal of Philosophy, 25(3), 833-839. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12289
• Kandiyali, J. (2014). Freedom and Necessity in Marx's Account of Communism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2013.863753
• Kandiyali, J. (2013). Marxism and Liberalism: A New Synthesis. Res Publica, 19, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-013-9231-9