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94When is a deleuzian becoming ?Continental Philosophy Review 36 (2): 139-153. 2003.Much has been written recently about the Deleuzian concept of becoming. Most of that writing, especially in feminist criticism, has drawn from the later collaborations with Guattari. However, the concept of a becoming arises earlier and appears more consistently across the trajectory of Deleuze's work than the discussion of specific becomings might lead one to believe. In this paper, I trace the concept of becoming in Deleuze's work, and specifically in the earlier works. By doing so, I hope to …Read more
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The Philosophy of FoucaultRoutledge. 2006.Michel Foucault's historical and philosophical investigations have gone through many phases: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical among them. What remains constant, however, is the question that motivates them: who are we? Todd May follows Foucault's itinerary from his early history of madness to his posthumously published College de France lectures and shows how the question of who we are shifts and changes but remains constantly at or just below the surface of his writings. By…Read more
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10The Philosophy of FoucaultRoutledge. 2006.Michel Foucault's historical and philosophical investigations have gone through many phases: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical among them. What remains constant, however, is the question that motivates them: who are we? Todd May follows Foucault's itinerary from his early history of madness to his posthumously published College de France lectures and shows how the question of who we are shifts and changes but remains constantly at or just below the surface of his writings. By…Read more
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8The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière: Creating EqualityPennsylvania State University Press. 2008.This book examines the political perspective of French thinker and historian Jacques Ranci&ère. Ranci&ère argues that a democratic politics emerges out of people&’s acting under the presupposition of their own equality with those better situated in the social hierarchy. Todd May examines and extends this presupposition, offering a normative framework for understanding it, placing it in the current political context, and showing how it challenges traditional political philosophy and opens up negl…Read more
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11The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist AnarchismPennsylvania State University Press. 1994.The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called ta…Read more
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7The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist AnarchismPennsylvania State University Press. 1994.The political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called ta…Read more
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19The Moral Theory of PoststructuralismPennsylvania State University Press. 2004.Both Anglo-American and Continental thinkers have long denied that there can be a coherent moral defense of the poststructuralist politics of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. For many Anglo-American thinkers, as well as for Critical Theorists such as Habermas, poststructuralism is not coherent enough to defend morally. Alternatively, for Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and their followers, the practice of moral theorizing is passé at best and more likely insidious. Todd Ma…Read more
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17The Limits of the Mental and the Limits of Philosophy: From Burge to Foucault and BeyondJournal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (1). 1995.
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14The Moral Theory of PoststructuralismPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 271-273. 1999.
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43To change the world, to celebrate life: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault on the bodyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (5-6): 517-531. 2005.For those of us for whom philosophy is not merely a parlor game but a way to conceive and to change our lives, there is a struggle to be faced. If we forsake the intolerable aspects of our world in order to celebrate what is beautiful in it, we risk endorsing that intolerability. Alternatively, if we jettison the celebration of life for world-changing, we join the ranks of the many revolutions of the last century that killed their own. This article suggests that if we articulate the point of int…Read more
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Richard Wolin, "The Terms of Cultural Criticism: The Frankfurt School, Existentialism, Post-Structuralism" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (4): 313. 1993.
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20The Community's Absence in Lytoard, Nancy, and Lacoue-LabarthePhilosophy Today 37 (3): 275-284. 1993.
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7Review of Ronald Bogue, Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (5). 2004.
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10Review of Diane Enns, Speaking of Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and the Struggle for Liberation (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (4). 2007.
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17Review of Jeffrey T. Nealon, Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and its Intensifications Since 1984 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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16Review of C. G. Prado, Searle and Foucault on Truth (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (9). 2006.
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19Review of Nick Hewlett, Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Re-Thinking Emancipation (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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20Review of Gillian Howie, Deleuze and Spinoza: An Aura of Expressionism (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (11). 2002.
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14Review of Oliver Feltham, Alain Badiou: Live Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (3). 2009.
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1Rancière in South CarolinaIn Gabriel Rockhill & Philip Watts (eds.), Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Duke University Press. 2009.
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68Review of Jacques Rancière, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (7). 2010.
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35Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, DeleuzePennsylvania State University Press. 1997.Reconsidering Difference has a twofold task, the primary one critical and the secondary one reconstructive. The critical task is to show that these various privilegings are philosophical failures.
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40Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and DeleuzePhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 721-723. 2000.
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63Philosophy as a spiritual exercise in Foucault and DeleuzeAngelaki 5 (2). 2000.This Article does not have an abstract
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136 Philosophies of DifferenceIn John Mullarkey & Beth Lord (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy, Continuum. pp. 93. 2009.
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Warren Wilson CollegeLecturer (Part-time)
Swannanoa, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |