Detailed Information for Nathan Jun

Nathan J. Jun PhD 
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nathan.jun@mwsu.edu

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Interests

  • The history of 19th and 20th-century radical political philosophy, especially anarchism, left-socialism, and left-libertarianism
  • Issues in political normativity, including political obligation, legitimacy, and the justification of political authority
  • Moral and philosophical issues in economics, especially as concerns the concepts of labor, equality, and exploitation
  • The philosophy of labor and the history of philosophy within radical labor and workers' rights movements
  • Contemporary European moral and political philosophy, especially Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
  • The "analytic/continental" divide as a philosophical and sociological phenomenon
  • Metaphilosophy, philosophy of social science, and the sociology of philosophies

    • Course Information

      Semester Course #    Section Course Name Location Days / Times
    Details Spring 2013 2333    Philosophy of Religion    McCullough Hall 101
    Details Spring 2013 2033    Ethics    Prothro-Yeager Hall 201
    Details Spring 2013 1033    Primary Concerns of Philosophy    Prothro-Yeager Hall 201
    Details Fall 2012 3433  101  Existentialism    Dillard College of Business Administration 177

    TR 11-12:20
    Details Fall 2012 3333  101  Nineteenth-Century Philosophy    McCoy Engineering Hall 131

    TR 9:30-10:50
    Details Fall 2012 2033  101  Ethics    Dillard College of Business Administration 178

    MWF 11-11:50 a.m.
    Details Spring 2012 2633  201  Contemporary Philosophy    Dillard College of Business Administration 329
    Details Spring 2012 2133  201  Political Philosophy    Dillard College of Business Administration 329
    Details Spring 2012 2033  201  Ethics    Dillard College of Business Administration 129
    Details Spring 2012 1033  201  Primary Concerns of Philosophy    Dillard College of Business Administration 129
    Details Fall 2011 3533  101  Special Topics in Philosophy: Feminist Philosophy    Dillard College of Business Administration 178
    Details Fall 2011 3233  101  Early Modern Philosophy    Dillard College of Business Administration 178
    Details Fall 2011 2033  101  Ethics    Dillard College of Business Administration 328


    Education Background

    Institution Degree    Graduation Date
    Loyola University Chicago Bachelor of Arts (Hon.) in English and Philosophy 2001 
    University of Pennsylvania Master of Arts in Philosophy 2003 
    Purdue University Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy and Literature 2008 


    Employment Background

    Institution Position Start Date / End Date
     Wilbur Wright College  Adjunct Professor of Philosophy  2007  2008
     Midwestern State University  Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Tenure-track)  2008-Aug  Present


    Research and Publications

    Book

    Anarchism and Political Modernity (Continuum, 2011)

     

    Edited Books

    Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies, ed. Nathan Jun and Jorell Melendez (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2013)

    Revolutionary Hope, ed. Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl (Lexington Books, forthcoming 2013)

    The Hippolyte Havel Reader, ed. Nathan Jun (AK Press, forthcoming 2013)

    Deleuze & Ethics, ed. Daniel W. Smith & Nathan Jun (Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

    New Perspectives on Anarchism, ed. Nathan Jun & Shane Wahl (Lexington Books, 2009)

     

    Reviews

    "Anarchism from Theory to Practice: Two Recent Contrubutions to Anarchist Studies," Review Essay on Benjamin Franks, Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms, and Anthony Nocella, et al. (eds.), The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, forthcoming in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 15:4 (December 2012), pp. 613-616.

    Review of Kathy Ferguson, Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets, forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory (Fall 2012).

    Review of Crispin Sartwell, Practical Anarchism: Writings of Josiah Warren, forthcoming in Anarchist Studies 20:1 (Spring 2012), pp. 115-116.

    Review of W. Bonefeld, Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future, forthcoming in Anarchist Studies 20:1 (Spring 2012), pp. 127-128.

    Review of Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, in Ideas and Action, December 2011.

    Review of Crispin Sartwell, Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory, in Philosophy & Social Criticism 37:7 (September 2011), pp. 845-7.

    Review of Angel Smith, Anarchism, Revolution, and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923, in Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History 11: 2 (June 2010), pp. 430-1.
     
    "Anarchist Philosophy and the Reductio ad Politicum" (Review Article of Crispin Sartwell's Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory), in Anarchist Studies 17:2 (Fall 2009), pp. 108-111.

    Review of Andrej Grubacic & Staughton Lynd, Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History, in Anarchist Studies 17:1 (Spring 2009), pp. 118-20.

    Book Chapters

    "Paideia for Praxis: Philosophy and Pedagogy as Practices of Liberation," in Anarchist Pedagogies, ed. R. Haworth (PM Press, 2012), pp. 283-302.

    "Deleuze, Derrida, e l'Anarchismo," in Pensare Altrimenti: Anarchismo e filosofia radicale del novecento, ed. S. Vaccaro (Eleuthera, 2011), pp. 175-207.

    "Introduction" and "Deleuze, Values, and Normativity," in Deleuze and Ethics, ed. D.W. Smith & N. Jun (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), pp. 1-4, 89-107.

    "Reconsidering Poststructuralism and Anarchism," in Postanarchism: A Reader, ed. D. Rousselle & S. Evren (Pluto Press, 2011), pp. 231-249.

    "Anarchist Philosophy: Past, Problems, and Prospects," in Anarchism & Moral Philosophy, ed. B. Franks &  M. Wilson (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 45-68.

    Journal Articles


    "Editor's Introduction" to Special Issue on the 2nd North American Anarchist Studies Network, in Theory In Action 4:4 (October 2011), pp. 1-8.

    "Towards an Anarchist Film Theory," in Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 1:1 (2010), pp. 139-161 [ISSN: 1923-5615].

    "Deleuze and Normativity," in Philosophy Today 53:4 (Winter 2009), pp. 347-358.

    "Anarchist Philosophy & Working Class Struggle: A Brief History and Commentary," in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 12:3 (September 2009), pp. 505-519.

    Translation (with Jesse Cohn) of Daniel Colson's "Lectures Anarchistes de Spinoza," in The Journal of French Philosophy 17:2 (Summer 2009), pp. 86-129.

    "Deleuze, Derrida, and Anarchism," in Anarchist Studies 15:2 (Fall 2007), pp. 132-56.

    "Toward a Girardian Politics," in Studies in Social and Political Thought 12 (Fall 2007), pp. 22-42.

    "Fredegisus of Tours On the Existence of Nothingness and Shadows: A New Translation & Commentary," in Comitatus 34 (September 2003), pp. 150-169.

    Works in Progress

    Rebel Thoughts: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Pietro Gori (with I. Spaziani)

    The Max Baginski Reader

    The Immortal Idea: A Critical History of Anarchist Philosophy