Todd May | |
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Born | Todd Gifford May May 13, 1955 |
Education | |
Alma mater | Penn State University |
Thesis | Psychology, Knowledge, Politics: The Epistemic Grounds of Michel Foucault's Genealogy of Psychology (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Alphonso Lingis |
Philosophical work | |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental |
Institutions | Clemson University |
Main interests | Political philosophy |
Notable ideas | Post-structuralist anarchism |
Todd Gifford May [1] [2] (born May 13,1955) 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.
In 1989,May received a doctorate at Pennsylvania State University in continental philosophy. [3] May has been teaching moral and political philosophy for over thirty years,beginning as a graduate instructor at Penn State before becoming a visiting assistant professor at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. [1] [2] May taught at Clemson from 1991 to 2022,where he served as the Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of Philosophy. [4] [2] Since 2022,he has been a lecturer in philosophy at Warren Wilson College. [5] [2] May also teaches philosophy to incarcerated people. [6]
Art academic Allan Antliff described May's 1994 The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism as "seminal," and he credited the book with introducing "post-structuralist anarchism," later abbreviated as "post-anarchism." [7] May has published works on major poststructuralist philosophers,including Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. [8] [9] He also wrote books on more general topics accessible to the general reader,including Death, [10] Our Practices,Our Selves,or,What It Means to Be Human, [11] Friendship in an Age of Economics:Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism, [12] A Significant Life:Human Meaning in a Silent Universe, [13] A Fragile Life:Accepting Our Vulnerability. [14]
May,along with Pamela Hieronymi,was a philosophical advisor to the NBC television show The Good Place . [15] They both had cameos in the final episode. [16]
May has three children,the youngest of whom majored in philosophy at university. [6]