Charles Turner graduated from Durham University and completed his PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research and teaching interests have also taken him to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich (1990-1991), the University of Warsaw (1992-1994) and the Jagiellonian University, Krakow (1999) his publications include Modernity and Politics in the Work of Max Weber (1992) and a collection edited with Robert Fine entitled Social Theory After the Holocaust (2000) He teaches undergraduate modules in Theoretical Ideas in Sociology and Contemporary Social Theory and the masters options Sociology of Modernity and the Idea of Europe. His research interests are in the areas of social and political theory, the sociology of collective memory and history, and the future of Europe. He is co-director of the Centre for Social Theory.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Turner, C.(2010)
Investigating sociological theory
(9781849203753) London: Sage Publications
Erickson, M.(2010)
The sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus: paradox and inference
Editors:
Erickson, M. and Turner, C. (9780754678564) Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate
Turner, C.(2010) 'Brilliantly said but wrong: the case of Philip Rieff'
Theory, Culture & Society
(0263-2764)
Turner, C.(2009) 'Habermas' Öffentlichkeit: a reception history'
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
12
(2), 225 - 241 (1369-8230)
Erickson, M. and Turner, C.(2009)
The sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus: paradox and inference
(9780754678564) Farnham ; Burlington, VT.: Ashgate
