Perspectives on Anarchist Theory

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Vol. 4 - No. 2
Fall, 2000

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Todd May: Biography and Selected Works

Todd May grew up in NYC and has been more or less politically active since the 1960's. He continues to be inspired by the hope generated in the 1960's. Unlike many others of his generation, May has not turned to stock options and pension plans and instead strives for a better society by maintaining "the open and continuous response to oppression wherever one finds it." During the 1980's he became involved in the divestment and anti-nuclear movements and since then has worked on gay and lesbian rights, anti-racism and, especially, Palestinian rights. As an intellectual, May paraphrases Foucault to describe himself: "I write what I believe to be right, and let the bureaucrats sort out my papers." He counts among his influences Abbie Hoffman, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Saul Alinsky, Rosa Parks, and Noam Chomsky. Todd May is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina.  

Selected Works

Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy. Edited, with an introduction by Todd May. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in The Thought of Michel Foucault. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

Our Practices, Our Selves, or, What it Means To Be Human. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.

The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

"Kant the Liberal, Kant the Anarchist: Rawls and Lyotard on Kantian Justice." The Southern Journal of Philosophy 28, no. 4 (1990): 525-38.

 "The Politics of Life in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze." SubStance 20, no. 3 (1991): 24-35.

Perspectives on Anarchist Theory - Vol. 4, No. 2 - Fall 2000