Michael J. Thompson

Michael J. Thompson
Born	1973 (age 52–53)

Academic background
Education	City University of New York (PhD)
Thesis	The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Frances Fox Piven
Other advisor	Marshall Berman
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Discipline	Political Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	Continental Philosophy
Institutions	William Paterson University

Michael J. Thompson (born 1973) is a political theorist at the William Paterson University. He founded and edited the academic journal Logos.

Selected publications

Monographs

Thompson, Michael J. (2024-06-05). Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (1 ed.). New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003179764. ISBN 978-1-003-17976-4.
Thompson, Michael J. (2022). Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-3244-8.
Thompson, Michael J. (2007). The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America. Columbia University Press. JSTOR 10.7312/thom14074.

Editorials

Thompson, Michael J., ed. (2018-04-27). Hegel's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics (1 ed.). 1 [edition]. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century philosophy ; 17: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315267838. ISBN 978-1-315-26783-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
Thompson, Michael J., ed. (2017). The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55801-5. ISBN 978-1-137-55800-8.

References

↑ "Michael Thompson". William Paterson University. Retrieved 2025-07-25.
↑ Thomas, Zachary R. (2024-12-01). "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism". New Political Science. 46 (4): 450–451. doi:10.1080/07393148.2024.2417607. ISSN 0739-3148.
↑ Cynamon, Jeremy Kingston (Oct 2023). "Michael J. Thompson: Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 271.)". The Review of Politics. 85 (4): 578–580. doi:10.1017/S0034670523000359. ISSN 0034-6705.
↑ Chu, Jonathan M. (2008-09-01). "The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America. By Michael J. Thompson. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xiv, 249 pp. $32.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14074-4.)". Journal of American History. 95 (2): 520–521. doi:10.2307/25095663. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 25095663.
↑ Holland, Matthew S. (2008). "Review of The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America". Perspectives on Politics. 6 (3): 597–598. doi:10.1017/S1537592708081437. ISSN 1537-5927. JSTOR 20446776.
↑ Moyar, Dean (2018). "Hegel's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Politics". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on 2024-06-04. Retrieved 2025-07-25.

External links

Michael J. Thompson publications indexed by Google Scholar