Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Paterson University. He teaches courses in the history of political thought, including Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Modern political philosophy, as well as courses in democratic theory, Marxism, critical theory, and psychology and politics. 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 Decline of the Dialectic: Patterns of Disfigurement in Modern Reason (Routledge, 2023). Susen, Simon
