Todd May: 17 books
A Decent Life
Morality for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 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...
A Fragile Life
Accepting Our Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 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,...
by Todd May
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
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...
A Significant Life
Human Meaning in a Silent Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 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...
by Todd May
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
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...
Nonviolent Resistance
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
We see nonviolent resistance all over today’s world, from Egypt’s Tahrir Square to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as the achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King,...
by Todd May
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 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...
Between Genealogy and Epistemology
Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 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...
Reconsidering Difference
Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1997
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...
How Not to Be Governed
Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced...
Our Practices, Our Selves
Or, What it Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
A book for everyone interested in learning how philosophy is done and what it can tell us about who we are.
Friendship in an Age of Economics
Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
We live in an age of economics. We are encouraged not only to think of our work but also of our lives in economic terms. In many of our practices, we are told that we are consumers and entrepreneurs. What has come to be called neoliberalism is not only a theory of market relations; it is a theory...
by Todd May
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
"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...
Connecting with Kids Through Stories
Using Narratives to Facilitate Attachment in Adopted Children Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Adopted children whose early development has been altered by abuse or neglect may form negative beliefs about themselves and parents, and may resist connecting with others. This book outlines how therapeutic stories can help children to heal and develop healthy attachments.
With a thorough...
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