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The philosophical advisor to the hit NBC sitcom The Good Place contemplates the future of humanity—whether we should bring new humans into the world, or if the world would be better without usThese days it’s harder than ever to read a paper, watch TV, or even just sit at home looking out the window without contemplating the title question of philosopher Todd May’s book: Should We Go Extinct? We live in an age characterized by worries about hum...

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Caring is a central aspect of our being. It anchors us to the world and to one another. And yet, understanding what caring is and how it operates in our lives is a challenge. This fascinating book meets that challenge, by canvassing various approaches to care and offering an overview of the key role it plays in our lives.

Caring is a central aspect of our being. It anchors us to the world and to one another. And yet, understanding what caring is and how it operates in our lives is a challenge. This fascinating book meets that challenge, by canvassing various approaches to care and offering an overview of the key role it plays in our lives.

Focuses on Ranciere's central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality.

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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 away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn‿t solve all the world‿s problems. It would make them better, though. So is that what we ha...

Kenneth Lonergan's three films-You Can Count on Me (2000), Margaret (2011), and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches to central issues of human behaviour. In particular, they ask questions about how to cope with suffering that one cannot overcome, the role that self- deception plays in people's lives and how to think about characters who do not embody simplistic m...

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 away everything we own and devoted ourselves to good works, it wouldn't solve all the world's problems. It would make them better, though. So is that what we h...

This is the first single-authored book in any language devoted entirely to the thought of Jacques Rancière. It focuses on his central political idea that a democratic politics emerges from the presupposition of equality. Todd May examines and extends this presupposition, offering a framework for understanding it, placing it in the current political context, and showing how it challenges traditional political philosophy and opens up neglected p...

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Todd May takes an intensive look at contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Ranci?re. In an easy and clear style, May provides an overview of Ranci?re's thought and relates it to Montreal's Algerian refugee movement for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality, the identity politics of the Zapatista movement, a local food coop in Sout...

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, Jr. and peaceful protests like the one that removed Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines clearly demonstrate. But what is nonviolence? What makes a ...

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Other books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: How might we live? He demonstrates how Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living entity that provides ways of conducting our lives that we may not have even dreamed of.