Todd May

Todd Gifford May[1] (born 1955 in New York City, New York) is a political philosopher who writes on topics of anarchism, poststructuralism, and post-structuralist anarchism. More recently he has published books on existentialism and moral philosophy. He is currently Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University.[2]

For the American guitarist, see Todd May (guitarist).
Todd Gifford May
Born1955
New York City, New York
Alma materPenn State University
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental
InstitutionsClemson University
ThesisPsychology, Knowledge, Politics:The Epistemic Grounds of Michel Foucault's Genealogy of Psychology (1989)
Doctoral advisorAlphonso Lingis
Main interests
political philosophy
Notable ideas
post-structuralist anarchism

Career

Art academic Allan Antliff described May's 1994 The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism as "seminal", and credited the book with introducing "post-structuralist anarchism", later abbreviated as "post-anarchism".[3] May has published works on major poststructuralist philosophers, including Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault.[4][5] He also wrote books on more general topics accessible to the general reader, including Death,[6] Our Practices, Our Selves, or, What It Means to Be Human,[7] Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism,[8] A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe,[9] A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability.[10]

May, along with Pamela Hieronymi, was a philosophical advisor to the NBC television show The Good Place.[11] Together they appeared as cameos in the final episode. [12]

Bibliography
  • Between Genealogy and Epistemology (1993). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-00905-6.
  • The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (1994). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01046-5.[13]
  • Reconsidering Difference (1997). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01658-0.
  • Our Practices, Our Selves, or, What It Means to Be Human (2001). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02086-0.
  • Operation Defensive Shield (2003). Sydney: Pluto Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-2063-2. Written in collaboration with Muna Hamzeh.
  • The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism (2004). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-02585-8.
  • Gilles Deleuze (2005). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84309-6.
  • Philosophy of Foucault (2006). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-3169-7.
  • The Political Thought of Jacques Ranciere: Creating Equality (2008). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-3586-3.
  • Death (2008). Acumen Publishing. ISBN 1-84465-164-9.
  • Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism (2014). New York: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-739-19284-9.
  • A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe (2015). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-23567-7.
  • Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction (2015). Cambridge: Polity Books. ISBN 978-0-745-67118-5.
  • A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability (2017). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-43995-2.
  • A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of Us (2019). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-60974-4.
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gollark: Then try and park as soon as possible and/or turn over control to a human.
gollark: Object recognition is already a... capability which exists.
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gollark: As long as they can automatically drive through big urban centers, and they can get cities on board, it would probably do the job.

References
  1. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Clemson University.
  2. Bieber, Matt. "Todd May". The Believer.
  3. Antliff, Allan (2007). "Anarchy, Power, and Poststructuralism". SubStance. 36 (2, issue 113: The Future of Anarchism): 56–66. JSTOR 25195125.
  4. "Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. June 2005.
  5. Anthony A. Defalco (14 August 2008). "A Review of "Philosophy of Foucault (European Philosophy Series)". Educational Studies. 44: 77–82. doi:10.1080/00131940802225119.
  6. Cave, Stephen (September 12, 2009). "Better late than never". Financial Times.
  7. Fillion, Réal (April 1, 2010). "Our Practices, Our Selves, or, What It Means to Be Human". Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review. 42 (1): 150–153. doi:10.1017/S0012217300004273.
  8. Weiskopf, Richard. "Friendship and counter-conduct in the neoliberal regime of truth". Ephemera. 13 (3): 683–693.
  9. Metz, Thaddeus (19 August 2015). "A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  10. Zaretsky, Robert (October 10, 2017). "Matters Large and Small: Reading Todd May's "A Fragile Life" in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey". Los Angeles Reviews of Books.
  11. "Philosophy on TV: "The Good Place"". Blog of the APA. 21 June 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  12. VanDerWerff, Emily (2020-01-31). "The Good Place was groundbreaking TV. Did its finale measure up?". Vox. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  13. Widmer, Kingsley (1996). "Notes on Some Recent Anarchisms". Social Anarchism (21): 88–97. ISSN 0196-4801.

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