Jack Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4470-1805 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Symposium on Melvin Rogers’s The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
The Darkened Light of Faith is a work in the history of black political thought that speaks to contemporary challenges. It provides intricate reconstructions of David Walker’s rhetorical methods in his 1829 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World ; the democratic perfectionism of Maria Stewart, Hosea Easton, and Anna Julia Cooper; Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany’s debate about the meaning and implications of civic republicanism for oppre…
Black Individualism, Black Communalism, and Conceptual Adequacy
Information sharing in public-private relationships: The role of boundary objects in contracts
The management of public-private relationships to deliver vital public products and services is crucial to ensure high performance. While extant public management studies have started to position contracts as vital in managing information exchange, these studies paid limited attention to unpack the elements within a contract, and their role and capacity, to support (or hinder) information sharing. Drawing on primary and secondary datasets, we exa…
African American Political Thought: A Collected History
Reconstructing liberalism: Charles Mills’ unfinished project
The political theory of Charles W. Mills seeks simultaneously to expose liberalism's complicity with white supremacy and to transform liberalism into a source of antiracist political critique. This article analyzes both Mills’ critique of liberalism and his attempt to reconstruct it into a political philosophy capable of adequately addressing racial injustice. I focus on his (a) problematization of moral personhood, (b) theorization of white igno…
Was Photios an Anti‐Latin: Heresy and Liturgical Variation in the Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs
In discussing Epistle 2, most of the attention has been focused on the discussion of the filioque, to the exclusion of Photios’ other liturgical and ecclesiastical comments. While the filioque arguments are now widely seen as an interpolation into the text (though whether by the hand of Photios or another author can be debated), these additional comments are largely glossed over. However, the liturgical comments in Photios’ Ep. 2 are indeed a cen…
Introduction: Crises of the Republic
The crises of the American republic—from climate change to economic inequality to overextended empire—make the subject of political imagination pressing. What future do we want for ourselves? How do we reconcile that vision with empirical reality? Political imagination concerns the scope and shape of the possible. Democratic theorist Jason Frank makes conflicts over political imagination the center of his scholarship. This symposium focuses on hi…
The Constitution of Radical Democracy
Radical democrats such as Sheldon Wolin and Jason Frank often frame radical democracy and liberal constitutionalism as mutually opposed. I argue that they are mutually constitutive. Liberal constitutionalism entails a bundle of normative commitments that support the free expression of radical democratic actors who revolt against one fundamental law in order to write another. Radical democracy enacts the spirit of revolution within the liberal con…
Traces of an Omnivore
Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
John Locke, Christian Mission, and Colonial America
John Locke was considerably interested and actively involved in the promotion of Protestant Christianity among American Indians and African slaves, yet this fact goes largely unremarked in historical scholarship. The evidence of this interest and involvement deserves analysis—for it illuminates fascinating and understudied features of Locke's theory of toleration and his thinking on American Indians, African slaves, and English colonialism. These…
Shadows of Du Bois
Political theory is catching up to Du Bois. More than a century after the publication of The Souls of Black Folk ([1903] 1997), political theorists have begun to realize that “the problem of the color-line” (pp. 45, 61) is constitutive of modernity. That it has taken this long for political theorists to recognize what Du Bois saw so clearly more than a century ago reflects the field's all-too-frequent parochialism. At the same time, the field is …
American Individualism and Structural Injustice: Tocqueville, Gender, and Race
American individualist ideology facilitates structural injustice. Through an analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville on individualism, gender domination, and white supremacy in the United States, this essay explains why. The peculiar social cognition of the American individualist desensitizes him to structural injustice. To preserve his faith that his fate lies entirely in his own hands, he blinds himself to the ways social structure constrains persona…
Awakening to Race: Ralph Ellison and Democratic Individuality
Ralph Ellison offers crucial insight into the meaning of conscientious citizenship in American democracy. In doing so, he follows his nineteenth-century Transcendentalist forebears—Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman—who have become key figures in contemporary efforts to theorize liberal democratic character. At the center of Emersonian ethics is the idea of “awakening.” “Awakening” is the Emersonians' name for honest and courageous confrontation with …
Performing Conscience: Thoreau, Political Action, and the Plea for John Brown
Does Henry Thoreau have a positive politics? Depending on how one conceives of politics, answers will vary. Hannah Arendt famously portrayed Thoreau’s commitment to the sanctity of individual conscience as distinctly unpolitical. More recent commentators grant that Thoreau has a politics, but they characterize it as profoundly negative in character. This essay argues that Thoreau indeed sponsors a positive politics—a politics of performing consci…
Reading aloud
Shorter notice. Dealing with Britain. The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. P Ludlow
Journal Article Shorter notice. Dealing with Britain. The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. P Ludlow Get access J Turner J Turner Royal Holloway, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 456, April 1999, Page 515, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.515 Published: 01 April 1999
Inservice education and the six o'clock news
Jack Turner Coordinator of Inservice Education Teacher Corps Project University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon T he demand or need to improve inservice education for school personnel has existed many years. Currently, the demand or need is increasing at an accelerating rate for three reasons. First, with declining enrollments and related reductions in the work force, schools must emphasize developing current human resources over hiring new ones. Second…
Psychological Measurements of Future Scientists
For the past three summers there has been on the campus of Florida State University a summer institute for mathematically talented senior high school students. The institute, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University, and directed by Dr. Eugene Nichols, has drawn students from mist of the 50 states. Selection is based upon performance on a competitive mathematics examination, presently The National Merit Examination conducte…
American Individualism and Structural Injustice: Tocqueville, Gender, and Race
American individualist ideology facilitates structural injustice. Through an analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville on individualism, gender domination, and white supremacy in the United States, this essay explains why. The peculiar social cognition of the American individualist desensitizes him to structural injustice. To preserve his faith that his fate lies entirely in his own hands, he blinds himself to the ways social structure constrains persona…
Performing Conscience: Thoreau, Political Action, and the Plea for John Brown
Does Henry Thoreau have a positive politics? Depending on how one conceives of politics, answers will vary. Hannah Arendt famously portrayed Thoreau’s commitment to the sanctity of individual conscience as distinctly unpolitical. More recent commentators grant that Thoreau has a politics, but they characterize it as profoundly negative in character. This essay argues that Thoreau indeed sponsors a positive politics—a politics of performing consci…
John Locke, Christian Mission, and Colonial America
John Locke was considerably interested and actively involved in the promotion of Protestant Christianity among American Indians and African slaves, yet this fact goes largely unremarked in historical scholarship. The evidence of this interest and involvement deserves analysis—for it illuminates fascinating and understudied features of Locke's theory of toleration and his thinking on American Indians, African slaves, and English colonialism. These…
Awakening to Race: Ralph Ellison and Democratic Individuality
Ralph Ellison offers crucial insight into the meaning of conscientious citizenship in American democracy. In doing so, he follows his nineteenth-century Transcendentalist forebears—Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman—who have become key figures in contemporary efforts to theorize liberal democratic character. At the center of Emersonian ethics is the idea of “awakening.” “Awakening” is the Emersonians' name for honest and courageous confrontation with …
The Constitution of Radical Democracy
Radical democrats such as Sheldon Wolin and Jason Frank often frame radical democracy and liberal constitutionalism as mutually opposed. I argue that they are mutually constitutive. Liberal constitutionalism entails a bundle of normative commitments that support the free expression of radical democratic actors who revolt against one fundamental law in order to write another. Radical democracy enacts the spirit of revolution within the liberal con…
Inservice education and the six o'clock news
Jack Turner Coordinator of Inservice Education Teacher Corps Project University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon T he demand or need to improve inservice education for school personnel has existed many years. Currently, the demand or need is increasing at an accelerating rate for three reasons. First, with declining enrollments and related reductions in the work force, schools must emphasize developing current human resources over hiring new ones. Second…
Introduction: Crises of the Republic
The crises of the American republic—from climate change to economic inequality to overextended empire—make the subject of political imagination pressing. What future do we want for ourselves? How do we reconcile that vision with empirical reality? Political imagination concerns the scope and shape of the possible. Democratic theorist Jason Frank makes conflicts over political imagination the center of his scholarship. This symposium focuses on hi…
Shadows of Du Bois
Political theory is catching up to Du Bois. More than a century after the publication of The Souls of Black Folk ([1903] 1997), political theorists have begun to realize that “the problem of the color-line” (pp. 45, 61) is constitutive of modernity. That it has taken this long for political theorists to recognize what Du Bois saw so clearly more than a century ago reflects the field's all-too-frequent parochialism. At the same time, the field is …
Psychological Measurements of Future Scientists
For the past three summers there has been on the campus of Florida State University a summer institute for mathematically talented senior high school students. The institute, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University, and directed by Dr. Eugene Nichols, has drawn students from mist of the 50 states. Selection is based upon performance on a competitive mathematics examination, presently The National Merit Examination conducte…
Inservice education and the six o'clock news
Jack Turner Coordinator of Inservice Education Teacher Corps Project University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon T he demand or need to improve inservice education for school personnel has existed many years. Currently, the demand or need is increasing at an accelerating rate for three reasons. First, with declining enrollments and related reductions in the work force, schools must emphasize developing current human resources over hiring new ones. Second…
Shorter notice. Dealing with Britain. The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. P Ludlow
Journal Article Shorter notice. Dealing with Britain. The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. P Ludlow Get access J Turner J Turner Royal Holloway, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 114, Issue 456, April 1999, Page 515, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/114.456.515 Published: 01 April 1999
Reading aloud
Performing Conscience: Thoreau, Political Action, and the Plea for John Brown
Does Henry Thoreau have a positive politics? Depending on how one conceives of politics, answers will vary. Hannah Arendt famously portrayed Thoreau’s commitment to the sanctity of individual conscience as distinctly unpolitical. More recent commentators grant that Thoreau has a politics, but they characterize it as profoundly negative in character. This essay argues that Thoreau indeed sponsors a positive politics—a politics of performing consci…
American Individualism and Structural Injustice: Tocqueville, Gender, and Race
American individualist ideology facilitates structural injustice. Through an analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville on individualism, gender domination, and white supremacy in the United States, this essay explains why. The peculiar social cognition of the American individualist desensitizes him to structural injustice. To preserve his faith that his fate lies entirely in his own hands, he blinds himself to the ways social structure constrains persona…
Awakening to Race: Ralph Ellison and Democratic Individuality
Ralph Ellison offers crucial insight into the meaning of conscientious citizenship in American democracy. In doing so, he follows his nineteenth-century Transcendentalist forebears—Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman—who have become key figures in contemporary efforts to theorize liberal democratic character. At the center of Emersonian ethics is the idea of “awakening.” “Awakening” is the Emersonians' name for honest and courageous confrontation with …
John Locke, Christian Mission, and Colonial America
John Locke was considerably interested and actively involved in the promotion of Protestant Christianity among American Indians and African slaves, yet this fact goes largely unremarked in historical scholarship. The evidence of this interest and involvement deserves analysis—for it illuminates fascinating and understudied features of Locke's theory of toleration and his thinking on American Indians, African slaves, and English colonialism. These…
Shadows of Du Bois
Political theory is catching up to Du Bois. More than a century after the publication of The Souls of Black Folk ([1903] 1997), political theorists have begun to realize that “the problem of the color-line” (pp. 45, 61) is constitutive of modernity. That it has taken this long for political theorists to recognize what Du Bois saw so clearly more than a century ago reflects the field's all-too-frequent parochialism. At the same time, the field is …
Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
Traces of an Omnivore
Reconstructing liberalism: Charles Mills’ unfinished project
The political theory of Charles W. Mills seeks simultaneously to expose liberalism's complicity with white supremacy and to transform liberalism into a source of antiracist political critique. This article analyzes both Mills’ critique of liberalism and his attempt to reconstruct it into a political philosophy capable of adequately addressing racial injustice. I focus on his (a) problematization of moral personhood, (b) theorization of white igno…
Was Photios an Anti‐Latin: Heresy and Liturgical Variation in the Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs
In discussing Epistle 2, most of the attention has been focused on the discussion of the filioque, to the exclusion of Photios’ other liturgical and ecclesiastical comments. While the filioque arguments are now widely seen as an interpolation into the text (though whether by the hand of Photios or another author can be debated), these additional comments are largely glossed over. However, the liturgical comments in Photios’ Ep. 2 are indeed a cen…
Introduction: Crises of the Republic
The crises of the American republic—from climate change to economic inequality to overextended empire—make the subject of political imagination pressing. What future do we want for ourselves? How do we reconcile that vision with empirical reality? Political imagination concerns the scope and shape of the possible. Democratic theorist Jason Frank makes conflicts over political imagination the center of his scholarship. This symposium focuses on hi…
The Constitution of Radical Democracy
Radical democrats such as Sheldon Wolin and Jason Frank often frame radical democracy and liberal constitutionalism as mutually opposed. I argue that they are mutually constitutive. Liberal constitutionalism entails a bundle of normative commitments that support the free expression of radical democratic actors who revolt against one fundamental law in order to write another. Radical democracy enacts the spirit of revolution within the liberal con…
African American Political Thought: A Collected History
Information sharing in public-private relationships: The role of boundary objects in contracts
The management of public-private relationships to deliver vital public products and services is crucial to ensure high performance. While extant public management studies have started to position contracts as vital in managing information exchange, these studies paid limited attention to unpack the elements within a contract, and their role and capacity, to support (or hinder) information sharing. Drawing on primary and secondary datasets, we exa…
Black Individualism, Black Communalism, and Conceptual Adequacy
A Symposium on Melvin Rogers’s The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
The Darkened Light of Faith is a work in the history of black political thought that speaks to contemporary challenges. It provides intricate reconstructions of David Walker’s rhetorical methods in his 1829 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World ; the democratic perfectionism of Maria Stewart, Hosea Easton, and Anna Julia Cooper; Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany’s debate about the meaning and implications of civic republicanism for oppre…
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