Todd May
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Education
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University, 1989. Philosophy
Dissertation: Psychology, Knowledge, Politics:
The Epistemic Grounds of Michel Foucault's
Genealogy of Psychology
M.A. Duquesne University, 1982. Psychology
B.A. Brown University, 1978
Areas of Specialization
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy: Phenomenology,
Existentialism, Structuralism, Poststructuralism
Areas of Competence
Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, History of Philosophy
Academic Positions
Lecturer, Warren Wilson College, 2022-Present
Class of 1941 Professor of the Humanities, 2009-2022
Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Philosophy, 2007- 2009
Professor, Clemson University, 1998-2007
Associate Professor, Clemson University, 1994-1998
Assistant Professor, Clemson University, 1991-1994
Visiting Assistant Professor, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, 1989-1991
Graduate Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University,
1987
Publications
Books:
Care: Reflections on Who We Are, Newcastle, Agenda
Publishing, forthcoming, 2023
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral
Question (Author: Michael Schur. Philosophical
Advisor: Todd May), 2022, Simon and
Schuster
Philosophical Filmmakers: Kenneth Lonergan, Bloomsbury,
February 2020
A Decent Life: Morality for the Rest of Us, University
Of Chicago Press, 2019
--Chinese translation, forthcoming, Renmin University
Press
A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability, University
of Chicago Press, 2017
--Korean translation, 2018, Dolbegae Publishers
Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction,
Polity Press, 2015
--Turkish translation, 2016, Ayrinti Yayinlari
A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe,
University of Chicago Press, 2015
--Vietnamese translation, forthcoming, Taodanbooks
--Greek translation, 2021, Stasei Ekpiptontes
Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the
Forces of Neoliberalism, Lexington Press, 2012
--Farsi translation, forthcoming, Ney Publishing
The History of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 8: Emerging
Trends in Continental Philosophy (edited collection
with introduction), Acumen Press, 2010
Contemporary Movements and the Thought of Jacques
Rancière: Equality in Action, Edinburgh Press, 2010
--Spanish translation of first chapter,
Debate Feminista, Vol. 46, October 2012
Death, Acumen Press, 2009
--Spanish translation, 2010, Biblioteca Buridan
--Greek translation, 2016, Stasei Ekpiptontes
--Turkish translation, 2020, Say Yayinlari
--Farsi translation, Goman Publishing House, 2014
The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière: Creating
Equality, Edinburgh University Press and Penn State
Press, 2008
The Philosophy of Foucault, Acumen Press, 2006
--Greek translation, oposito, 2019
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction, Cambridge University
Press, 2005
--Korean translation, 2008, Kyungsung University Press
--Turkish translation, 2017, Kolektif Kitap
--Greek translation, 2021, oposito press
Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War
Crimes (co-edited collection with historical overview),
Pluto Press, 2003
Our Practices, Our Selves, Or, What it Means to be Human,
Penn State Press, 2001
Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas and
Deleuze, Penn State Press, 1997
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy: A Reader
(edited collection with introduction), Prentice-Hall, 1997
The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism, Penn State Press,
1995
The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism,
Penn State Press, 1994
--Turkish translation, 2002, Ayrinti Yayinlari
--Italian translation, 1998, Eleuthera
Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics
and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault, Penn State
Press, 1993
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Philosophies of Difference,” in The Cambridge History of
Philosophy 1945-2010, ed. Iain Thomson. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2019
“Merleau-Ponty on Love,” in The Oxford Handbook on the
Philosophy of Love, ed. Chris Grau. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2019
“French Ethical Philosophy since the 1960s” In The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, ed. Sacha Golob and
Jens Timmerman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017
“Nonviolence, Disidentification, and Equality” Satyagraha
International, Satyagraha Foundation for Nonviolence
Studies (online publication), July 2016
“Who’s Being Disciplined Now? Operations of Power in a
Neoliberal World” (co-authored with Ladelle McWhorter),
In Biopower: Foucault and Beyond, ed. Vernon W. Cisney
and Nicolae Morar. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2016
“Love and Death,” in Thinking About Love: Essays in
Contemporary Continental Philosophy, ed. Antonio Calcagno
and Diane Enns. University Park: Penn State Press, 2015
“From Subjectified to Subject: Power and the Possibility
of a Democratic Politics,” Harvard Review of Philosophy,
Vol. 22, Fall, 2015.
“Living the Biopolitical: Body and Resistance in Foucault
and Merleau-Ponty,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal,
Vol. 36, #1, 201
“In the Encounter of a Joy Beyond My Own Pleasure,” (in
Italian), Exploit, ed. Fabio Benincasa and Andrea Facchi,
Bordeaux, 2015
“Moral Individualism, Moral Relationalism, and Obligations
to Non-human Animals,” Journal of Applied Philosophy,
Vol. 31, #2, 2014
“Humanism and Solidarity,” parrhesia, Number 18, 2013
“From World Government to World Governance: An Anarchist
Perspective,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy,
Vol. 27, #2, Fall 2013
“Desire and Ideology in fascism,” in Deleuze & Fascism:
Security: War: Aesthetics, ed. Brad Evans and Julian Reid.
London: Routledge, 2013
“Narrative Conceptions of the Self,” in Constructive
Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches to
Philosophy, ed. Bo Mou and Richard Tieszen. Leiden:
Brill, 2013
“Postmodernism and Politics,” The Routledge Companion to
Social and Political Philosophy, ed. Gerald Gaus and
Fred D’Agostino. New York: Routledge, 2013
“Power in Neoliberal Governmentality,” The Journal of the
British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 43, #1, January 2012
“Justice Before and Justice After: Nancy and Rancière on
Creation,” in Jean-Luc Nancy: Justice, Legality, World,
- Ben Hutchens. London: Continuum Press, 2012
“Kant via Rancière: From Ethics to Anarchism,” in
How Not to Be Governed: Reading and Interpretations from
A Critical Anarchist Left, ed. Jimmy Casas Klausen and
James Martel. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012
“Foucault on Freedom: Situated Struggles without
a Metaphysics of Freedom,” Michel Foucault: Key
Concepts, ed. Dianna Taylor, Acumen Press, 2011
“A New Neo-Pragmatism: From James and Dewey to
Foucault,” Foucault Studies, #11, February 2011
“Rethinking the New World Order: responses to
globalization/American hegemony,” in The History of
Continental Philosophy, Vol. 8, Acumen Press, 2010
“Politics: Radical Democracy,” Jacques Rancière: Key
Concepts, ed. Jean-Philippe Deranty, Acumen Press, 2010
“Rancière in South Carolina,” Jacques Rancière: History,
Politics, Aesthetics, ed. Gabriel Rockhill and Philip
Watts, Duke University Press, 2009
“Thinking the Break: Rancière, Badiou, and the Return
of a Politics of Resistance,” Comparative and Continental
Philosophy, Vol. 2, #1, Autumn 2009
“There are No Queers: Jacques Rancière and post-identity
politics,” borderlands, Vol. 8, #2, 2009
“Democracy is Where We Make It: The Relevance of Rancière,”Symposium, Vol. 13, #1, Spring 2009
“Philosophies of Difference,” Continuum Companion to
Continental Philosophy, ed. John Mullarkey and Beth Lord,
Continuum Press, 2009