My CV
David Charles Stuart Turner
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
COVENTRY
CV4 7AL
ENGLAND
0044 2476 523114
email: D.C.S.Turner@warwick.ac.uk
Books
(2019) . London: Routledge, 180pp.
(2010) London: Sage, 216pp.
(1992) London: Routledge, 232pp.
Edited Books
(2010) and Mark Erickson (eds.) . London: Ashgate, 148pp.
(2006) and Ralf Rogowski (eds.), . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 214pp.
(2000) and Robert Fine (eds.), . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 266pp.
Articles in Journals
(2020) 鈥楾he Wrong End of the Stick: Nabokov and self-deception鈥�, 6(2): 9-36.
(2019) 鈥楽ecularisation: a movable feast鈥� (in Turkish), Cogito No.94 (Summer),
(2019) 鈥楽ocial Types and Sociological Analysis鈥�, 32(3): 3-23.
(2019) 鈥楾heses on Populism鈥� (in Turkish), ONS (Summer).
(2015) 鈥楾ravels without a Donkey: the adventures of Bruno Latour鈥�, 28(1): 118-38.
(2014) 鈥楾he Sociological Tradition or Traditions?鈥� 45 (1): 22-33.
(2011) 鈥楽acred Sociology: the life and times of Philip Rieff鈥�, 28(3): 80-105.
(2009) 鈥楬abermas鈥� 脰蹿蹿别苍迟濒颈肠丑办别颈迟: a reception history鈥�, 12 (2): 225-41.
(2008) 鈥楽top the Pidgin: a reply to Steve Fuller鈥�, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38(3): 379-82.
(2005) 鈥楽cenographies of Suicide: Hitler and his Victims鈥�, 34(2): 261-79鈥�
(2004) 鈥楯眉rgen Habermas: European or German?鈥� 3(3): 293-314.
(2003) 鈥楳annheim鈥檚 Utopia Today鈥�, 16(1): pp.27-48
(1999) 'Appropriating Auschwitz: The 呕wirowisko Crosses', Journal of Holocaust Education. Vol.8, No.2, 27-44.
(1998) 鈥楾ouraine鈥檚 Concept of Modernity鈥�, European Journal of Social Theory. Vol. 1, No.2, pp.185-93.
(1996) 'Holocaust Memories and History', . Vol.9, No.4, pp.45-63.
(1994) 'Pluralizm a Demokracja: kwestie sporne', Spo艂ecz臋nstwo Otwarte. No.9, pp.18-24.
(1993) 'Liberalism and the Limits of Science: Weber and Blumenberg', . Vol.6, No.4, pp.57-79.
(1989) 'Weber, Simmel and Culture', Sociological Review. Vol.37, No.3, pp.518-29.
(1988) (with P. Manning) 鈥楾he Problem of Authenticity in Tourist Research', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 24 (1): 136-39.
Book Chapters
(2020) 鈥業nfinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography鈥�, in A. Bielik-Robson and D. Whistler (eds.) . London: Palgrave, pp.175-192.
(2018) 鈥楾ime and Tide in Sociology鈥�, in J. Castro, B. Fowler and L. Gomes (eds.) Time, Science and the Critique of Technological Reason: Essays in Memory of Herminio Martins. London: Palgrave, pp.183-190.
(2018) 鈥楶hilip Rieff and Social Theory鈥�, in J. Imber (ed.) New York: Anthem Press. pp.149-166.
(2018) 鈥楽hame and Plagiarism鈥�, in J. Walsh and B. Shiels (eds.) Shame and Modern Writing. London: Routledge, pp.207-220.
(2017) 鈥業slamism, Political Islam鈥�, in W. Outhwaite and S. Turner (eds.) . London: Sage, pp.669-82.
(2017) 鈥楢rendt on Totalitarianism鈥�, in P. Baehr (ed.) . New York: Anthem Press, pp.25-48.
(2014) 鈥楨xiles in British Sociology鈥�, in J. Holmwood and J. Scott (eds.) The Palgrave History of British Sociology. London: Palgrave, pp.282-301.
(2010) 鈥�The Structure of Sociological Inference: a forgotten classic鈥�, in Mark Erickson and Charles Turner (eds.) The Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus. London: Ashgate, pp.65-86.
(2010) with Mark Erickson, 鈥榃ilhelm Baldamus: an intellectual biography鈥�, in Erickson and Turner, pp.1-14.
2008) 鈥楬uman Conduct in Extreme Situations鈥�, in Liz McFall, Paul Du Gay and Simon Carter (eds), . Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.153-81.
(2006) 鈥楾he Shape of the New Europe: politics, law, history, culture鈥�, in R. Rogowski and C. Turner (eds.) The Shape of the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [50/50]
(2006) 鈥楴ation and Commemoration鈥�, in K. Kumar and G. Delanty (eds), . London: Sage, pp.205-13.
(2000) 鈥極pen Behind: Myth and Politics鈥�, in C. Turner and R. Fine (eds.) Social Theory After the Holocaust. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp.235-57.
(1998) 鈥榃eber and Dostoyevsky on Church, Sect and Democracy鈥�, in S. Whimster (ed.) . London, MacMillan, pp.162-75.
(1997) 'Civil Society or Constitutional Patriotism?', in R. Fine and S. Rai (eds.) Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives. London, Frank Cass, pp.106-22.
(1990) 'Lyotard and Weber: Postmodern Rules and Neo-Kantian Values', in B.S. Turner, (ed.), Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity. London, Sage, pp.108-16.
Encyclopaedia Entries
(2020) 鈥楢rendt, Hannah鈥�, in P. Atkinson et al (eds.) Sage Research Methods Foundations.
(2013) 鈥楧isciplinarity鈥�, in B. Kaldis (ed), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. London: Sage.
(2001) 鈥榃eberian Social Thought, History of鈥�, International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier, pp.16407-12.
(2001) 鈥業ntellectual Transfer in the Human Sciences鈥�, International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier, pp.7624-7.
(1997) 鈥楶ublic and Private鈥�, The Blackwell Encylopedia of Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Review Articles
(2006) 鈥楾he Origins and Dynamics of Genocide鈥�, 35(1): 168-183 (on Michael Mann, Fascists, and The Dark Side of Democracy).
(1999) 鈥業n Praise of Frederic Jameson鈥�, History of the Human Sciences 12(3): 149-158. (on Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity).
(1998) 鈥楾he Strange Anti-Liberalism of Carl Schmitt鈥�, Economy and Society 27(4): 434-57 (on Carl Schmitt, Roman Catholicism and Political Form and Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes; Heinrich Meier, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss; John McKormick, Carl Schmitt鈥檚 Critique of Liberalism).
(1998) 鈥楪oing Down鈥�, History of the Human Sciences 11(4): 141-8 (on Hans Blumenberg, Shipwreck with Spectator).
(1996) 鈥楿ntitled鈥�, History of the Human Sciences 9(2): 139-51 (on Peter Osborne, The Politics of Time; Andreas Huyssen, Twilight Memories).
(1990) 'Organicism, Pluralism and Civil Association', History of the Human Sciences. Vol.5, No.3, pp.175-84 (on Otto von Gierke, Community in Historical Perspective; Paul Hirst, The Pluralist Theory of the State; Paul Franco, The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott).
(1991) 鈥楾he Illusion of the Epoch鈥�, History of the Human Sciences 4(1): 107-13 (on Lisa Appignanesi (ed.), Postmodernism, Roy Boyne, Foucault and Derrida; Steven Connor, Postmodernist Culture, David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodemity, Andrew Benjamin (ed.), The Lyotard Reader; Hugh Silverman (ed.), Postmodernism: philosophy and the arts).
Book Reviews
(2018) Yuri Slezkine, The House of Government, 69(3): 865-7.
(2018) Sara Farris, Max Weber鈥檚 Theory of Personality, Max Weber Studies 18(1): 145-8.
(2016) Philip Walsh, Arendt Contra Sociology, Canadian Journal of Sociology 41(2): 81-4.
(2016) Alex Law and Eric Royal Lybeck (eds.), Sociological Amnesia: Cross-Currents in Disciplinary History, Sociology 51(2): 506-7.
(2015) Terry Maley, Democracy and the Political in Max Weber鈥檚 Thought, 43(2): 275-9.
(2013) Bruno Latour, The Making of Law, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 43(2): 272-4.
(2012) Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, 53(3): 423-8.
(2011) Paul Connerton, How Modernity Forgets, British Journal of Sociology 62(1): 198-9.
(2011) Joachim Radkau, Max Weber: a biography, Sociology 45(1): 170-2.
(2011) Thomas Risse, A Community of Europeans?, Contemporary Sociology 40(5): 614-15.
(2010) Hans Joas and Wolfgang Kn枚bl, Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures, Sociology 44(4): 782-4.
(2010) Roger Smith, Being human: historical knowledge and the creation of human nature, Economy and Society 39(2): 303-8.
(2009) Philip Rieff, Sacred Order/Social Order, British Journal of Sociology 60(4): 844-6.
(2008) Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds.) Making Things Public, Cultural Sociology 2(3): 419-23.
(2000) Dennis Smith, Zygmunt Bauman: prophet of postmodernity, British Journal of Sociology 51(4): 762-3.
(1999) James Good and Irving Velody (eds.) The Politics of Postmodernity; Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, European Journal of Social Theory 2(4): 501-4.
(1999) Charles Tilly, Roads from Past to Future, Sociology 33(3): 671-2.
(1997) David Sciulli, The Theory of Societal Constitutionalism, History of the Human Sciences 10(1): 135-46.
(1997) Al Rainnie and Jane Hardy, Restructuring Krak贸w, Work, Employment and Society 11(2): 391-3.
(1996) Louis Dumont, German Ideology, Contemporary Sociology 25 (1): 112.
(1994) Bryan S. Turner, Max Weber: from history to modernity, Sociology 28(2): 644-5.
(1991) Wolfgang J. Mommsen, The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber, Theory, Culture and Society 8(4): 137-8.
(1990) Bryan S. Green, Literary Methods and Sociological Theory, Sociological Review 38 (1): 207-9.
Published Translations
(2016) Peter Wagner, 鈥楧emocracy and Capitalism in Europe, Brazil and South Africa鈥� in G. Rosich and P. Wagner (eds.) The Trouble with Democracy. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp.212-232 [from German]
(2013) Stephan Nachtsheim, 鈥楾he Concept and Philosophy of Culture in neo-Kantianism鈥�, in J. Walker (ed.) The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought Vol.2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.136-160. [from German]
(2010) Wilhelm Baldamus, 鈥楾he Exoteric Paradox鈥�, in Erickson and Turner (from German), pp.87-106. [from German]
(2010) Jan Hartman, 鈥業 just want to be myself鈥�, Tygodnik Powschechny, 14th December [from Polish]
(2010) Marcin Kr贸l, 鈥榃hat I Remember鈥�, Tygodnik Powschechny, 14th December [from Polish]
(1999) Wolfgang Schluchter, 'Psychophysics and culture鈥�, in S.P. Turner (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.59-80. [from German]
(1996) Claus Offe, . Cambridge: Polity (5 chapters) [from German].
Papers presented
(2019) 鈥楢 moving carriage of similes: Robert Musil on love鈥�, Theory, Culture and Society conference on Truth and Illusion, University of Klagenfurt, June (with Zeynep Talay-Turner).
(2019) 鈥楽ecularisation: a movable feast鈥�, conference on Secularisation, Secularism, Laicism, Bligi University, Istanbul, May.
(2019) 鈥楩rom Balzac to Bauman鈥�, conference on The Third Culture, University of 海角社区, May.
(2018) 鈥榃hat is Populism?鈥�, Bilgi University, Istanbul, April.
(2018) 鈥業nfinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography鈥�, workshop on Modernity after Blumenberg, ENS Lyon, April.
(2017) 鈥楤rexit and the Suspension of Parliament鈥�, conference on Parliamentary Traditions in Central and Eastern Europe, Przemy艣l, October.
(2014) 鈥楽hame and Plagiarism鈥�, workshop on Shame and the Act of Writing, 海角社区 University. September.
(2013) 鈥楽ome Thoughts on Plagiarism鈥�, University of Brighton, May.
(2012) 鈥楾he Sociological Tradition or Traditions?鈥�, conference on The Legacy of Robert Nisbet, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
(2011) 鈥楾he Relative Metaphors of Bruno Latour鈥�, CRESC Annual Conference, Oxford, September.
(2009) 鈥楢 S茅ance with Philip Rieff鈥�, European Sociological Association, Lisbon, September.
(2008) 鈥楽loterdijk鈥檚 Spheres: an absolute metaphor鈥�, 海角社区 Social Theory Centre and Institute for Advanced Study Workshop on Peter Sloterdijk, May.
(2008) 鈥楢gainst the Europeanisation of the Holocaust鈥�, workshop on Transnational Literatures and Cultures, 海角社区.
(2008) 鈥�The Structure of Sociological Inference: a forgotten classic鈥�, Wilhelm Baldamus Centenary Special Event, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 海角社区, April.
(2006) 鈥楨urope: from future to past鈥�, European Research Institute, University of Birmingham, November.
(2006) 鈥榃hat is Organisational Illiberalism?鈥�, Sociology of Organisations panel, World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July.
(2006) 鈥楾he Social Sciences and Politics鈥�, 海角社区 University Sociology Department Annual Debate (with Michael Burawoy), June.
(2006) 鈥楥rap Diagrams鈥�, University of Brighton, May
(2006) 鈥楾he Future of Europe鈥�, conference on The Legacy of Solidarno艣膰, 海角社区, February
(2005) 鈥楥ynicism and Scepticism: two approaches to sociology鈥�, University of Bristol, February.
(2004) 鈥楽ocial Theory and the Art of Living鈥�, European Sociological Association Social Theory Committee, Paris, September.
(2003) 鈥楽cenographies of Suicide: Hitler and the Holocaust鈥�, Conference: Scenographies of Suicide, Birkbeck College, University of London, September.
(2003) 鈥楶ower and Human Nature: Plessner v. Foucault鈥�, Philosophical Anthropology, Politics and Society, 2nd Meeting of the Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, Jagiellonian University, Krak贸w, March (invitation]
(2003) 鈥楥ultural Studies, Interdisciplinarity and Significance鈥�, Conference on Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinarity, University of Innsbruck, March.
(2002) 鈥楳etaphor in Sociology鈥�, World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, July.
(2001) 鈥楽ociology and Cultural Studies鈥�, University of Birmingham, Dept. of Sociology and Cultural Studies, November.
(2001) 'Englishness, Britishness and Europe', Conference on European Identities, University of Latvia, Riga, October.
(2001) 鈥楾he Ethical Turn in Sociology: Remarks on Bauman', 35th Congress of International Institute for Sociology, Krak贸w, Poland, July.
(2001) 鈥楩rame and Form in Sociology鈥�, conference on Re-examining the Aesthetic, University of Bristol, November.
(2000) 鈥楻ules, Practices and the Idea of a Shared Culture鈥�, Conference on Peter Winch and the Idea of a Social Science, University of Bristol.
(1999) 鈥楢ppropriating Auschwitz鈥�, 34th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, University of Tel Aviv, July.
(1998) 鈥楾he Return of the Political and the Demise of Politics鈥�, ESRC Seminar, Social Theory and Major Social Transformations, 海角社区 University, Oct.
(1997) 鈥楲iving in a Post-Historical World鈥�, Collegium Budapest, Budapest.
(1996) 'Holocaust Memories and History', Conference on Identity, Memory, History, University of the West of England.
(1995) 'Eastern Europe and the Rhetoric of Transition', Theory, Culture and Society Conference, City, Nation, World, Berlin.
(1994) 'Tradition as a Sociological Problem', Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Warsaw.
(1993) 'Weber, Civil Society and the Changes in Eastern Europe', Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
(1992) 'The Anatomy of Democratic Melancholy', Dept. of Sociology, University of Lancaster
(1990) 'Carl Schmitt's Political Philosophy', Anglia College of Higher Education, Cambridge.
(1990) 'Dogmatism, Vanity and Vocation', BSA Max Weber Study Group, German Historical Institute, London.
(1989) 'Lyotard and Weber', American Sociological Association, San Francisco.
(1989) 'Simmel and the City鈥�, Architectural Association, London.
Online Commentary
(2020) 鈥楾he break up of the UK is coming, but will it be violent or peaceful?鈥�, , October.
(2020) 鈥楥oming to terms with our past鈥�, , June.
(2019) 鈥楴ovember 9th is remembrance Saturday鈥�, November.
(2019) 鈥楾wo Cheers for Hypocrisy鈥�,, September
(2019) 鈥楾hrough the Looking-Glass鈥�, , March.
(2019) 鈥楾hese irresponsible brexit games鈥�, politics.co.uk, February.
(2019) 鈥楢 Citizens鈥� Assembly is the best way out of this brexit mess鈥�, LSE Blogs, January.
(2018) 鈥楳ajor Constitutional Change requires more than mere majorities鈥�, LSE blogs, December.
(2018) 鈥楾heresa May, Max Weber, brexit and political leadership鈥�, opendemocracy, December.
(2018) 鈥楪rammar Schools aren鈥檛 the enemy: private schools are鈥�, politics.co.uk, November.
(2018) 鈥楾he Political Theory of Enlightened Isolationism: in muted praise of Jeremy Corbyn鈥�, Discovering Society, March.
(2017) 鈥楾he Brexit Generation Game鈥�, , 2nd August.
(2016) 鈥楶arliament鈥檚 Brief Dalliance with the People鈥�, Prospect Magazine. 15th December.
(2016) 鈥楽overeignty and responsibility after brexit鈥�, opendemocracy, July.
(2016) 鈥楨rdo臒an鈥檚 Voices鈥�, London Review of Books Blog, 25th July.
(2015) 鈥榁oting in Istanbul鈥�, opendemocracy. 6th November, 2015 (as Wayne Thaxsted).
(2014) 鈥楾aking Sides in Ukraine鈥�, opendemocracy, April.
(2013) 鈥楨rdo臒an and Cameron: shared values?鈥� opendemocracy. 20 August.
(2013) 鈥楾urkey and Egypt鈥�, Independent Voices. 14 July
(2013) 鈥楾urkey protests: Erdo臒an is Turkey鈥檚 Mrs. Thatcher鈥�, Independent Voices. 5 June.
(2013) 鈥楨rdo臒an鈥檚 Style鈥�, opendemocracy. 3 June (as Wayne Thaxsted).
Current/future research projects
Ongoing. The Human Sciences and the Claims of Literature.
Ongoing. Legacies of Communism.
Ongoing. The Politics of the Centre
Conferences organised
(2018) Robert Fine Memorial Conference, University of 海角社区, November.
(2008) 海角社区 Social Theory Centre Workshop on Peter Sloterdijk, University of 海角社区, May.
(2002) Annual Meeting of the International Social Theory Consortium, International University Centre, Dubrovnik, July.
(2001) 鈥楾he Shape of the New Europe鈥�, University of 海角社区, May
(1998) 鈥楽ocial Theory After the Holocaust鈥�, University of 海角社区, February