Michael Neumann

Michael Neumann (born 1946) is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of What's Left? Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche (1988), The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics (2002) and The Case Against Israel (2005), and has published papers on utilitarianism and rationality.

Neumann is "the son of German Jewish refugees", one of them the eminent political sociologist of Nazism, Franz Leopold Neumann. He has written that "Like my parents, I have always been an atheist." He is a US citizen and resident of Canada. Neumann graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English and History from Columbia University in 1968, and in 1975 was awarded his Ph.D. in philosophy by the University of Toronto.

Neumann has taught at Trent University since 1975. He became a full professor in 2003. His interests at Trent University include ethics, political philosophy, formal logic, philosophy of logic, and metaphysics. He has published papers on utilitarianism and rationality. He is a faculty member of the university's Centre for the Study of Global Power and Politics.

Neumann is the author of What's Left? Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche (1988) and The Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics (2002). He is a frequent contributor to the CounterPunch newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, and contributed to their 2003 edited collection The Politics of Anti-Semitism. In 2005 he published The Case Against Israel, a response to Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel.

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