Clancy Martin

Clancy Martin is a Canadian philosopher, novelist, and essayist. His interests focus on 19th century philosophy, existentialism, moral psychology, philosophy and literature, ethics & behavioral health, applied and professional ethics (especially bioethics) and philosophy of mind.

A Guggenheim Fellow, Martin has authored and edited more than a dozen books in philosophy, including Love and Lies, Honest Work, Introducing Philosophy, Ethics Across the Professions and The Philosophy of Deception. He has written more than three hundred articles, essays and short pieces on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Romanticism, the virtue of truthfulness, and many other subjects, and has also translated works of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard from German and Danish, including a complete translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Martin is also a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and author of two novels, How to Sell: A Novel and Travels in Central America. In How to Sell, he portrays the luxury business as being one of exquisite vulgarity and outrageous fraud, finding in it a metaphor for the American soul at work. His novels have earned acclamation from publications such as Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly and The Kansas City Star.

Martin earned his B.A. degree at Baylor University. He attended graduate school at University of Texas, Austin, in the philosophy department. He quit in the early 1990s to start a jewelry business with his older brother. He resumed his graduate studies after his father died in 1997. He received his PhD in philosophy from UT Austin in 2003. He then went on to teach at University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he is now Curators' Distinguished professor of philosophy. "Best Books of 2015", Los Angeles Times For Bad Sex "Best Story", The Paris Review Daily 2012 "Best Books of 2009" The Times Literary Supplement (chosen by Craig Raine), The Guardian (chosen by Jonathan Franzen), Publishers Weekly , The Kansas City Star, for How to Sell'' The Pushcart Prize, 2008 UMKC Trustees’ Faculty Scholars Award, 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award. Department of Philosophy. University of Texas at Austin, 2003 Outstanding Teaching Award. Department of Philosophy. University of Texas at Austin, 2001, 2002