Staff profile

I joined Durham in 2021, having previously worked at the LSE and Istanbul Technical University. Before that, I completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

I work on a variety of topics in social and political philosophy. In recent years I have written about Marx's vision of the good society, the relationship between liberal egalitarianism and socialism, the distribution of good and bad work, the implications of republican freedom, the desirability of universal basic income, and the news media's coverage of class, poverty, and inequality. I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students with interests in these and relaed areas. 

I am an Area Editor for the open access philosophy journal Ergo, and I am on the organising committee of the Marx & Philosophy Society. 

 

• Marx
• Political Philosophy
• Ethics

Authored book

• Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2026). Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198917731.001.0001
• Reassessing Marx's Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2018). Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing. Routledge.

Chapter in book

• "In and Through Their Association": Marx on Freedom and Communism
  
  Kandiyali, J., & Chitty, A. (2023). "In and Through Their Association": Marx on Freedom and Communism. In J. Saunders (Ed.), Freedom After Kant. Bloomsbury.
• Historical Materialism: Marx
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2019). Historical Materialism: Marx. In J. Shand (Ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (pp. 236-260). Wiley.
• Western Europe
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2018). Western Europe. In J. Diamanti, A. Pendakis, & I. Szeman (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx. Bloomsbury.
• Marx and Schiller on Specialization and Self-Realization
  
  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
• Communism Shouldn't be Post-Work
  
  Kandiyali, J., & Gomberg, P. (n.d.). Communism Shouldn’t be Post-Work. In D. Celentano, M. Cholbi, J. Deranty, & K. Schaff (Eds.), Debating a Post-Work Future: Perspectives from Philosophy and the Social Sciences [Proposed to publisher]. Routledge.
• Class, Inequality, and the Media
  
  Kandiyali, J., & Kurtulmuş, F. (n.d.). Class, Inequality, and the Media. In C. Fox & J. Saunders (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Philosophy and the Media [Contracted by publisher]. Routledge.

Journal Article

• We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism
  
  Kandiyali, J., & O’Neill, M. (2025). We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism. Political Philosophy, 2(1), 204-237. https://doi.org/10.16995/pp.19050
• Should Socialists be Republicans?
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2024). Should Socialists be Republicans? Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 27(7), 1032-1049. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2070834
• What makes communism possible? The self-realisation interpretation
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2024). What makes communism possible? The self-realisation interpretation. Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 23(3), 273-294. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x231219764
• Sharing Burdensome Work
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2023). Sharing Burdensome Work. The Philosophical Quarterly, 73(1), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqac023
• Marx, Communism, and Basic Income
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2022). Marx, Communism, and Basic Income. Social Theory and Practice, 48(4), 647-664. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202283169
• Is Marx's Thought on Freedom Contradictory?
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2021). Is Marx’s Thought on Freedom Contradictory? Critical Review, 33(2), 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2021.1984052
• The Importance of Others: Marx on Unalienated Production
  
  Kandiyali, J. (2020). The Importance of Others: Marx on Unalienated Production. Ethics, 130(4), 555-587. https://doi.org/10.1086/708536
• Marx on the compatibility of freedom and necessity: A reply to David James
  
  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
• Freedom and Necessity in Marx's Account of Communism
  
  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