Dr George Boss

I am a political theorist working on human needs, voice, poverty, and Marx. My first book, Marx and the Politics of Need (Routledge, 2026), re-reads Marx as a changing-making activist to develop a distinctive Marxian conception of needs as constitutively political. As of 2026, I am principal investigator on my Leverhulme-funded project 'Unspeakable Needs: A Political Theory of Voice and Poverty', where I’m exploring the contemporary micro-politics of needs-claiming, the silencing of those in need, and discursive (in)justice. Alongside that, I think and write about the nature, purpose, and practice of public political philosophy.