Michael J. Thompson

Michael J. Thompson (born 1973) is a political theorist at the William Paterson University.^[1] He founded and edited an academic magazine ‘Logos’.

Michael J. Thompson
Born	1973 (age 51–52)
Academic background
Alma mater	City University of New York (PhD)
Thesis	The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America (2005)
Academic advisors	Marshall Berman
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Discipline	Political Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	Continental Philosophy
Institutions	William Paterson University

Life and works

Selected publications

Mono

• 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.^[2]
• Thompson, Michael (2009-07-01). Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674033962. ISBN 978-0-674-03396-2. Retrieved 2025-07-25.^{[3][4][5][6][7][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.^[9][10]

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)^[11]
• 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.