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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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10Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of NeoliberalismLexington Books. 2012.Friendship in an Age of Economics is the first book not only to detail the relationships neoliberalism encourages us to have, but also to see how friendship can provide a bulwark of resistance to them. Written in an engaging style, it will be understandable to political theorists, philosophers, social scientists, and cultural theorists.
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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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7Gilles Deleuze, Difference, and ScienceIn Gary Gutting (ed.), Continental Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2005.
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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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7Review of Ronald Bogue, Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (5). 2004.
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7DeathRoutledge. 2009.The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures…Read more
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6Review: France's Heidegger: History and philosophy in the early years (review)History and Theory 46 (2): 264-271. 2007.
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6Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of NeoliberalismLexington Books. 2012.This is the first book not only to detail the relationships neoliberalism encourages us to have but also to see how friendship can provide a bulwark of resistance to it. Written in an engaging style, it will be understandable to political theorists, philosophers, social scientists, and cultural theorists
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6Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, DeleuzePennsylvania State University Press. 1982.French philosophy since World War II has been preoccupied with the issue of difference. Specifically, it has wanted to promote or to leave room for ways of living and of being that differ from those usually seen in contemporary Western society. Given the experience of the Holocaust, the motivation for such a preoccupation is not difficult to see. For some thinkers, especially Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze, this preoccupation has led to a mode of philosophi…Read more
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5Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel FoucaultPennsylvania State University Press. 1993.Michel Foucault introduced a new form of political thinking and discourse. Rather than seeking to understand the grand unities of state, economy, or exploitation, he tried to discover the micropolitical workings of everyday life that have often founded the greater unities. He was particularly concerned with how we understand ourselves psychologically, and thus with how psychological knowledge developed and came to be accepted as true. In the course of his writings, he developed a genealogy of ps…Read more
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41 Love and DeathIn Antonio Calcagno & Diane Enns (eds.), Thinking about Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Penn State University Press. pp. 17-30. 2015.
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3Analytic Themes in Continental PhilosophyIn Constantin V. Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 629-642. 2007.
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3Our Practices, Our Selves: Or, What It Means to Be HumanPennsylvania State University Press. 2001."This enjoyable book, written in an engaging, colloquial voice, is that rare kind of introduction to philosophy that both shows that philosophy is a distinctive form of lively conceptual activity rather than an inert body of dusty doctrines and makes a contribution to the field it introduces by showing the importance of our multifarious human practices to questions of selfhood and identity." -Back cover.
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3DeathRoutledge. 2009.The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures…Read more
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2Book Review: A Critical Introduction (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (9): 1335-1337. 2022.Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.
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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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1Book Review: A Critical Introduction (review)Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (9): 1335-1337. 2022.Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.
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1Book Review: A Critical Introduction (review)Sage Publications Ltd: Philosophy and Social Criticism 48 (9): 1335-1337. 2022.Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 48, Issue 9, Page 1335-1337, November 2022.
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2 dogmas of post-empiricism, anti-theoretical strains in Derrida and RortyPhilosophical Forum 25 (4): 273-309. 1994.
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Deleuze's Spinoza : Thinker of difference, or Deleuze against the valley girlsIn Stephen H. Daniel (ed.), Current continental theory and modern philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2005.
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John Rajchman, "Philosophical Events: Essays of the 80's" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (3): 250. 1992.
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Anarchism, poststructuralism, and contemporary European philosophyIn Nathan J. Jun (ed.), Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, Brill. 2017.
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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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Emerging trends in continental philosophyIn Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, University of Chicago Press. 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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Deleuze and the tale of two intifadasIn Anna Hickey-Moody & Peta Malins (eds.), Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues, Palgrave-macmillan. 2007.
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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 |