Thinking from Within: Ten Questions on Coming Clean. Fabrizio Sciacca talks with Eric Heinze

This conversation with Eric Heinze introduces Coming Clean as a philosophical examination of the present state of critical theory and the Western left’s approach to history, justice, and self-reflection. The dialogue explores the tension between critique as a transformative tool and critique as an institutional habit, questioning whether the left applies the same ethical standards to its own past as it does to others. Heinze argues for a renewed practice of political and conceptual honesty—one that acknowledges complexity without falling into relativism, and pursues critique not as dogma but as an open-ended mode of enquiry. The exchange is guided by a commitment to clarity, rigour, and the idea that philosophy must remain responsive to its own conditions of speech