Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Paterson University and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is on the faculty at the William Alanson White Institute for Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology, and is on the faculty and the supervisor at the Metropolitan Institute for Psychdynamic Psychotherapy in New York City. He is the author of numerous books, including The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in American Political Thought (Columbia University Press, 2007); The Domestication of Critical Theory (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment (SUNY Press, 2020); Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2022); and Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2025).
