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31A New Neo-Pragmatism: From James and Dewey to FoucaultFoucault Studies 11 54-62. 2011.Michel Foucault's thought not only converges with a certain type of pragmatism; it can deepen our understanding of pragmatism. There is an ambivalence in pragmatist thought between an approach that privileges the question of: ”What works?” and ”How does it work?” The former misses the political idea that some practices don't just work, but work for one purpose or another. Foucault's pragmatism does not focus on what works, but instead utilizes the concept of practices as a unit of analysis, and …Read more
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30The system and its fractures: Gilles Deleuze on othernessJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 24 (1): 3-14. 1993.
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24A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent UniverseUniversity of Chicago Press. 2015.What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilarating new way of thinking about these questions, one deeply attuned to life as it actually is: a work in progress, a journey—and often a narrative. Offering moving accounts of his own life and memories alongside rich engagements with phi…Read more
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21Book Review:The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Gary Gutting (review)Ethics 106 (3): 661-. 1996.
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21New Perspectives on AnarchismLexington Books. 2009.The study of anarchism as a philosophical, political, and social movement has burgeoned both in the academy and in the global activist community in recent years. Taking advantage of this boom in anarchist scholarship, Nathan J. Jun and Shane Wahl have compiled twenty-six cutting-edge essays on this timely topic in New Perspectives on Anarchism
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20The Community's Absence in Lytoard, Nancy, and Lacoue-LabarthePhilosophy Today 37 (3): 275-284. 1993.
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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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19Review of Nick Hewlett, Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Re-Thinking Emancipation (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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19Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (5): 1045-1048. 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-4, Ahead of Print
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19Contemporary political movements and the thought of Jacques Rancière: equality in actionEdinburgh University Press. 2010.How democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different political arenas
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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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18Freedom, causality, and the antinomy of teleological judgement: An investigation of Kant¿s resolution of two realmsDiálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 28 (61): 85-100. 1993.
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18A Fragile Life: Accepting Our VulnerabilityUniversity of Chicago Press. 2017.It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity—and teaching us how to do the same. After all, isn’t a life free from suffering the ideal? Isn’t it what so many of us seek? Absolutely not, argues Todd May in this provocative but compassionate book. In a moving examination of life and the trials t…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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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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14Power in Neoliberal GovernmentalityJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 43 (1): 45-58. 2012.
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14Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2010."Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy" presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the most recent developments in European thought. From feminist thought to environmental philosophy to analytic themes in Continental philosophy to recent discussions of citizenship, "Emerging Trends" offers an overview of the currents animating contemporary Continental philosophy. The volume focuses on thematic developments rather than individual figures, allowing the reader to follow the threads tha…Read more
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14Popular Ethics in The Good Place and BeyondIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2022.In one of the earliest scenes in the first episode of The Good Place, the head demon, Michael, points to a picture of Doug and says that he was the person who most nearly understood what it takes to get into the Good Place, which is a point system. In addition to showing full‐blooded characters and stories and making phenomenological type arguments, a show like The Good Place can sometimes pose philosophical questions in a way that's more engaging than a written text. The humor in The Good Place…Read more
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14The Moral Theory of PoststructuralismPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (1): 271-273. 1999.
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14Review of Oliver Feltham, Alain Badiou: Live Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (3). 2009.
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14A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of UsUniversity of Chicago Press. 2019.You’re probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let’s face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you? In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it’s easy to despair—and it’s also easy to judge ourselves for not doing more. Even if we gave away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn’t solve all the world’s problems. It would make them better, though. So is that what we have to do? Is anything less a moral failure? Can we lead…Read more
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14Social Life and Moral Judgment (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 638-639. 2006.The first two chapters of the book are largely a defense of individual freedom against those who would speak in the name of some sort of determinism. Professor Flew sees the urgency of this task to lie in the “general moral decline widely perceived to have been in progress for many years in both the UK and the USA”, a claim for which he cites Robert Bork as providing evidence, at least in the United States. In particular, Professor Flew is concerned about sociobiologists, social scientists, and …Read more
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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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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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10Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2010."Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy" presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the most recent developments in European thought. From feminist thought to environmental philosophy to analytic themes in Continental philosophy to recent discussions of citizenship, "Emerging Trends" offers an overview of the currents animating contemporary Continental philosophy. The volume focuses on thematic developments rather than individual figures, allowing the reader to follow the threads tha…Read more
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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 |