Nathan Jun

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Nathan Joseph Jun (born 28 April 1979) is an American political philosopher and historian of political thought whose research primarily focuses on the history and philosophy of anarchism.

Academic Background

Jun completed his undergraduate work in English and Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, where his teachers included Paul L. Jay, Allen Frantzen, Paul Moser, Adriann Peperzak, and David Schweickart. He subsequently earned an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania under the tutelage of James F. Ross and Charles H. Kahn, followed by a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature from Purdue University. Jun's mentors at Purdue included William L. McBride, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Leonard Harris. His dissertation committee was chaired by the Deleuze scholar Daniel W. Smith.

Career

From 2008 to 2021 Jun served as Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. The following year he played a leading role in the creation of the North American Anarchist Studies Network--a sister organization to the UK-based Anarchist Studies Network--and helped to organize the group's inaugural conference in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2010 he helped create the Contemporary Anarchist Studies book series alongside co-editors Uri Gordon, Laurence Davis, and Alex Prichard. He has served on the editorial boards of several publications including Anarchist Studies, the Journal of Social Justice, and Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies.

Prior to 2014 Jun's work in political theory chiefly focused on poststructuralism and its relationship to anarchism. During this period Jun was widely regarded as a critic of postanarchism alongside Jesse Cohn, Shawn Wilbur, Allan Antliff, and Benjamin Franks. This perception was largely a result of his 2011 volume Anarchism and Political Modernity (2011), which takes postanarchist writers such as Todd May to task for misinterpreting the "classical anarchist" tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jun has since clarified and revised his views on postanarchism in several publications.

Around 2014 Jun's work shifted to the history of political thought with an emphasis on the intellectual history of anarchism. In an as-yet unpublished volume entitled The Immortal Idea: An Intellectual History of Anarchism, Jun attempts to steer a middle course between what he regards as overly inclusive historiographic approaches (as typified by, e.g., Peter Marshall) and the more exclusive approach taken by Lucien van der Walt. Alongside Benjamin Franks, Ruth Kinna, Matthew Adams, Uri Gordon, and others, Jun has drawn extensively on Michael Freeden's theory of ideology in his treatment of the history of anarchist thought.

Right-Wing Attacks and Resignation

Between June and December of 2020 Jun fell prey to a sustained campaign of right-wing harassment, threats, and vandalism in response to controversial Facebook posts he had written in the aftermath of George Floyd's death. Jun's former employer Midwestern State University was widely and publicly criticized for the way it responded to Jun's remarks as well as the resulting attacks against him. . In late 2021 the university again faced criticism for allegedly forcing Jun out of his tenured position by denying him a requested disability accommodation.    The allegation prompted an open letter of protest that was eventually signed by more than 500 faculty members.

Selected Bibliography

Books

• Anarchism and Political Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2011) [1]

Edited Volumes

• Proletarian Days: A Hippolyte Havel Reader (AK Press, 2018) [2]
• Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach, co-edited with Benjamin Franks and Leonard Williams (Routledge, 2018) [3]
• Brill’s Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy (Brill, 2017) [4]
• Foucault & Deleuze Ekseninde Anarşist Bir Film Teorisi (Turkish translation of “Toward an Anarchist Film Theory”), edited and translated by Deniz Kurt (Altikirkbes Basin Yayin 645, 2016) [5]
• Max Baginski, What Does Syndicalism Want?, edited by Nathan Jun, translated by Friederike Wiedemann and Yvonne Franke (Kate Sharpley Library, 2015) [6]
• Without Borders or Limits: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies, co-edited with Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) [7]
• Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. McBride, co-edited with Shane Wahl (Lexington Books, 2013) [8]
• Deleuze and Ethics, co-edited with Daniel W. Smith (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) [9]
• New Perspectives on Anarchism, co-edited with Shane Wahl (Lexington Books, 2010) [10]

Articles

• “Anarchist Responses to a Pandemic” (with Mark Lance), Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 30, nos. 3 and 4 (2020), pp. 361-378 [11]
• “Anarchism Without Archives,” American Periodicals: A Journal of History and Criticism 29, no. 1 (2019), pp. 3-5 [12]
• “On Philosophical Anarchism,” Radical Philosophy Review 19, no. 2 (2017), pp. 551-567 [13]
• “Romantic Anarchism: Asceticism, Aestheticism, and Education,” Literature Compass 13, no. 1 (2016), pp. 34-43 [14]
• “Come, Let Us Reason Together,” Défaire/Refraire L’Universitè: Essai de Tout Dire, Les Cahiers de l'idiotie 6 (2016), pp. 131-140 [15]
• “Political Theory and History: The Case of Anarchism” (with Matthew Adams), The Journal of Political Ideologies 20, no. 3 (2015), pp. 244-262 [16]
• “Dretske on Introspection and Knowledge,” Rivista di Filosofia 106 (2015), no. 1, pp. 99-118
• “Hegel and Anarchist Communism,” Anarchist Studies 22, no. 2 (2014), pp. 26-52 [17]
• “Rethinking the Anarchist Canon: History, Philosophy, and Interpretation," Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (2013), pp. 79-111 [18]
• “Toward an Anarchist Film Theory,” Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 1, no. 1 (2010), pp. 139-161 [19]
• “Deleuze and Normativity,” Philosophy Today 53, no. 4 (2010), pp. 347-358 [20]
• “Anarchist Philosophy and Working Class Struggle,” WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 12, no. 3 (2009) pp. 505-519 [21]
• Translation (with Jesse Cohn) of Daniel Colson’s “Lectures Anarchistes de Spinoza,” The Journal of French Philosophy 17, no. 2 (2009), pp. 86-129 [22]
• “Deleuze, Derrida, and Anarchism,” Anarchist Studies 15, no. 2 (2007), pp. 132-156 [23]
• “Toward a Girardian Politics,” Studies in Social and Political Thought 12 (2007), pp. 22-42 [24]
• “Fredegisus of Tours’ ‘On the Existence of Nothingness and Shadows’: A New Translation and Commentary,” Comitatus 34 (2003), pp. 150-169 [25]

Book Chapters

• “Anarchist Perspectives on Warfare,” in Comparative Just War Theory, edited by Luís Cordeiro Rodrigues and Danny Singh (Lexington Books, 2019), pp. 11-30 [26]
• “Deleuze and the Anarchist Tradition,” in Deleuze and Anarchism, edited by Aragorn Eloff and Chantelle Gray van Heerden (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 85-102 [27]
• “Anarchist Concepts of the State,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, edited by Carl Levy and Matthew Adams (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 27-45 [28]
• “Anarchist Concepts of Freedom,” in Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach, edited by Benjamin Franks, Nathan Jun, and Leonard Williams (Routledge, 2018), pp. 44-59 [29]
• “Anarchism and Philosophy: A Critical Introduction,” in Brill’s Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, edited by Nathan Jun (Brill, 2017), pp. 1-38 [30]
• “On the Spiritual Exploitation of the Poor,” in Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?, edited by Michael Truscello and Ajamu Nangwaya (AK Press, 2017), pp. 133-144 [31]
• “Paideia for Praxis: Philosophy and Pedagogy as Practices of Liberation,” in Anarchist Pedagogies, edited by Robert Haworth (PM Press, 2012), pp. 283-302 [32]
• “Deleuze, Derrida, e l’Anarchismo,” in Pensare Altrimenti: Anarchismo e filosofia radicale del novecento, edited by Salvo Vaccaro (Eleuthera, 2011), pp. 175-207 [33]
• “Reconsidering Post-structuralism and Anarchism,” in Postanarchism: A Reader, edited by Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya Evren (Pluto Press, 2011), pp. 231-249 [34]
• “Deleuze, Values, and Normativity,” in Deleuze and Ethics, edited by Daniel W. Smith and Nathan Jun (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), pp. 89-103 [35]
• “Anarchist Philosophy: Past, Problems, and Prospects,” in Anarchism and Moral Philosophy, edited by Benjamin Franks and Matthew Wilson (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 45-68 [36]

Reviews

• Review of Michael Marder, Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2 February 2020 [37]
• Review of Iwona Janicka, Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism, in Anarchist Studies 27, no. 1 (2019), pp. 115-117 [38]
• Review of Matthew S. Adams, Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism: Between Reason and Romanticism, in Anarchist Studies 25, no. 2 (2017), pp. 96-98 [39]
• Review of Travis Tomchuck, Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S. 1915-1940 and Kenyon Zimmer, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America, in Altreitalie 52 (January-June 2016), pp. 134-136 [40]
• Review of H.E. Baber and Denise Dimon, eds., Globalization and International Development, in Teaching Philosophy 37, no. 2 (2014), pp. 268-269 [41]
• “Reply to Saul Newman’s Review of Anarchism and Political Modernity,” in The Journal of Political Power 7, no. 1 (2013), pp. 165-166 [42]
• Review of Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 7 February 2013 [43]
• Review of Kathy Ferguson, Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets, in Contemporary Political Theory 12, no. 2 (2013), pp. 8-10 [44]
• Review of Benjamin Franks, Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms, and John Asimakopoulos, Deric Shannon, and Anthony Nocella, eds. The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society 15, no. 4 (2012), pp. 613-616 [45]
• Review of Crispin Sartwell, Practical Anarchism: Writings of Josiah Warren, in Anarchist Studies 20, no. 1 (2012), pp. 115-116 [46]
• Review of Werner Bonefeld, Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future, in Anarchist Studies 20, no. 1 (2012), pp. 127-128 [47]
• Review of Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel, in Ideas and Action, December 2011 [48]
• Review of Crispin Sartwell, Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory, in Philosophy and Social Criticism 37, no. 7 (2011), pp. 845-847 [49]
• 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, no. 2 (2010), pp. 430-431 [50]
• “Anarchist Philosophy and the Reductio ad Politicum” (Review Essay on Crispin Sartwell’s Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory), in Anarchist Studies 17, no. 2 (2009), pp. 108-111 [51]
• Review of Andrej Grubacic and Staughton Lynd, Wobblies & Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History, in Anarchist Studies 17, no. 1 (2009), p. 118 [52]

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