Todd May is a political philosopher

Political philosophy

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...

 notable for his role in developing, alongside Saul Newman

Saul Newman

Saul Newman is a political theorist and central post-anarchist thinker.Newman coined the term "post-anarchism" as a general term for political philosophies filtering 19th century anarchism through a post-structuralist lens, and later popularized it through his 2001 book From Bakunin to Lacan...

 and Lewis Call

Lewis Call

Lewis Call is an American academic notable for being a central post-anarchist thinker. He is best known for his 2002 book Postmodern Anarchism, which develops an account of postmodern anarchism through philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunk writers such as William Gibson and Bruce...

, the theory of post-structuralist anarchism. He is currently Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University

Clemson University

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 and contributes to CounterPunch

Counterpunch

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. His 1994 book The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism was the first to combine poststructuralist and anarchist thought, and he subsequently has published treatments of major poststructuralist philosophers, including Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...

 and Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

. He serves as faculty adviser for several student-run political organizations.

External links

• "Poststructuralist Anarchism:An Interview with Todd May", Perspectives on Anarchist Theory - Vol. 4, No. 2 - Fall 2000
• " Gay Rights Outlook Improves in South", a letter to the editor
  Letter to the editor
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   by May published in The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  on 1998-07-07
• Religion, the Election and the Politics of Fear, essay by May for CounterPunch
  Counterpunch
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• Interview with Todd May by Jason Adams, discussing the impact of The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism.
• Philosophy and Religion Faculty and Staff including biographical material on May