University of South Florida

Faculty Member, Philosophy

Graduate Research Professor

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Some newly published stuff:

A few items have recently appeared in print.

Turner, Stephen  2011. "Schmitt, Telos, the Collapse of the Weimar Constitution, and the Bad Conscience of the Left, in Timothy W. Luke and Ben Agger, eds.  A Journal of No Illusions: Telos, Paul Piccone, and the Americanization of Critical Theory. New York: Telos Press. pp. 115-140.

This is a very compressed account of the problem of the complicity of the far Left in the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the demonization of Schmitt, and the refusal to acknowledge debts to Schmitt, resulting in the stagy brouhaha over Schmitt and Telos.

Turner, Stephen, (2011) "Classic Sociology: Weber as an Analyst of Charisma," in Michael Harvey and Ron Riggio, eds., The Research Companion to Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines, Williston, VT and London: Edward Elgar, pp. 82-88.

A very compressed discussion of Charisma in Weber as it relates to leadership studies.

Turner, Stephen 2011, "Universalism, Particularism, and Moral Change," in Nikolai Genov, ed. Global Trends and Regional Development. London: Routledge. pp. 251-267.

Discusses the common roots and common problems of sociological and philosophical approaches to the idea of universal morality, especially in relation to moral change, and compares them to MacIntyre’s idea of tradition. Suggests that neither works, but that a kind of synthesis might: if one ignores the idea that there are universal moral impulses that lead to a single universal morality, but saves the idea that there are universal moral impulses but allow that they sometimes or often conflict, one can use MacIntyre’s idea that explicit moral theories serve to reconcile conflicting moral impulses in novel situations by generalizing it, so that moral theories are always in the business of reconciling, under particular circumstances, conflicting moral impulses that are themselves universal. 

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