Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Essex University publishing his dissertation on "Genealogies of Difference".
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Essex University publishing his dissertation on "Genealogies of Difference".
He currently teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has also produced three major studies, Genealogies of Difference (University of Illinois Press, 2002), Reflections on Time and Politics (Penn State University Press, 2008), and Political Theory after Deleuze (Continuum Press, 2012). His essay "Foucault and Power Revisited" remains one of the most accessed articles in the European Journal of Political Theory over ten years since it was published.
He has done research and published widely on questions of difference, pluralism, power, identity, and knowledge, and he has drawn on ideas in contemporary thought in order to stage a re-engagement with both central and marginal figures in ancient, early Christian, and medieval philosophy. He also has an Master of Science (Economy) Political Theory from The London School of Economics and a Bachelor Political Science from Johns Hopkins University. Widder has published articles in prominent journals, including Angelaki, Continental Philosophy Review, Contemporary Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Parallax, Philosophy Today, Political Theory, and Theory & Event.