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Category Archives: Stephen Turner
Decoding Decoding The Gurus, Part Two
Part one. This decoding is a hard job because the podcast Decoding the Gurus (DTG) by academics Matt Browne and Chris Kavanagh is objectively impressive. Matt and Chris, however, seem unaware that they have their own subjective partisan left-wing hero … Continue reading
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A Hazard Called Sociology: Review of Stephen Turner’s Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory
Raphael Sassower writes: * Years ago, I traveled on a sabbatical to South America and returned with what I thought was a derivative of my companion book on the trip, Jacques Derrida’s The Post Card (1987), thinking my thoughts and … Continue reading
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Philosopher Stephen Turner Publishes A Memoir: Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory
Here are some highlights from this 2022 book: * The bookshelves in my father’s office in the basement of our house in Chicago had a copy of Saul Alinsky’s Reveille for Radicals of 1946, a first edition “second impression,” with … Continue reading
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The Tradition of Post Tradition (2021)
Stephen Turner writes: * The arrival of the war focused the discussion of the moral crisis. One theme was the question of what the war was being fought for: Robert Maynard Hutchins and John Dewey debated the question in the … Continue reading
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The Politics Of The Word And The Politics Of The Eye
Stephen Turner wrote in 2003: * Weltanschauung is a term that best fits commonalities of opinion and belief that are the product of words, and particularly printed words, and even more particularly, printed words used in connection with a particular … Continue reading
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Subtleties Of Thought
Stephen Turner wrote in 2001: * ‘Presentism’ is a term that covers a multitude of not very well defined sins, but its main meaning is this: texts may be read in a variety of ways, and a text that is … Continue reading
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Depoliticizing Power
Stephen Turner wrote in 1989: Carl Schmitt’s renovated Hobbesianism, with its insistence on the antithesis between authority and truth contained in the Hobbist slogan auctoritas, non veritas facit legem, (law is decided by authority, not by truth) provides the dialectical … Continue reading
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The Changing Temptations Of Science
Stephen Turner published in 2020: The idea of science as a spontaneous order produced by autonomous individuals following their best hunches, the core of the liberal theory of science, became less an accurate description than an expression of nostalgic regret. … Continue reading
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Beyond The Academic Ethic
Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading
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LSU spent nearly $1 million on legal fight over firing of coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden
Philosopher Stephen Turner wrote: “A court case after the Katrina disaster gives some indication of the power of the state to coerce consensus. An obscure engineering researcher at Louisiana State University criticized the Army Corps of Engineers, which was responsible … Continue reading
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