{{Short description|British philosopher}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}}
'''Tom Whyman''' is an academic philosopher and writer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Whyman {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-whyman |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 March 2017 |title=Tom Whyman |url=https://thebaffler.com/authors/tom-whyman |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=The Baffler |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Whyman |url=https://artreview.com/author/tom-whyman/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=ArtReview |language=en}}</ref> Whyman is a freelance writer and teaches philosophy part-time at the University of Durham.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Whyman |url=https://jacobin.com/author/tom-whyman |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=jacobin.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He has undertaken studies in the following fields: Frankfurt School critical theory, German idealism, Kierkegaard, and contemporary ethical naturalism.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 March 2012 |title=About |url=https://infinitelyfullofhope.wordpress.com/about/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=Infinitely Full Of Hope |language=en}}</ref>
Whyman was born in Frimley, Surrey, and currently lives in Gateshead.
He published 'Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster', which discusses the philosophy of hope and despair, in relation to parenthood and the upcoming birth of his child.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Whyman – Repeater Books – Authors |url=https://repeaterbooks.com/authors/tom-whyman/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=Repeater Books |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Castree |first=Noel |date=13 April 2010 |chapter=Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444397352.ch9 |title=The Point is to Change It |pages=185–213 |doi=10.1002/9781444397352.ch9|isbn=9781405198349 |url=https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/files/24372759/POST-PEER-REVIEW-NON-PUBLISHERS.DOC }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Simon |title=Finding hope in an age of crisis - with Tom Whyman |url=https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/finding-hope-in-an-age-of-crisis-with-tom-whyman/ |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=National Centre for Writing}}</ref>
In 2026 he ran as a Green Party candidate for Gateshead council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Local election results 2026 |url=https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/37547/Local-election-results-2026 |access-date=2026-05-23 |website=Gateshead Council |language=en}}</ref>
==Books== ''Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster'', Repeater Books: ISBN 9781913462253
''The German Ideology: A New Abridgement'', Repeater Books: ISBN 978-1913462956
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