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  1. The history of theory.Ian Hunter - 2006 - Critical Inquiry 33 (1):78-112.
    Do you see now why it feels so good to be a critical mind? Why critique, this most ambiguous pharmakon, has become such a potent euphoric drug? You are always right! When naïve believers are clinging forcefully to their objects... you can turn all of those attachments into so many fetishes and humiliate all the believers by showing that it is nothing but their own projection, that you, yes you alone, can see. But as soon as naïve believers are thus (...)
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  • Charles Taylor's A Secular Age and secularization in early modern Germany.Ian Hunter - 2011 - Modern Intellectual History 8 (3):621-646.
    In this essay I discuss the historical adequacy of Charles Taylor's philosophical history of secularization, as presented in his A Secular Age . I do so by situating it in relation to the contextual historiography of secularization in early modern Europe, with a particular focus on developments in the German Empire. Considering how profoundly conceptions of secularization have been bound to competing religious and political programmes, we must begin our discussion by entertaining the possibility that modern philosophical and historiographic conceptions (...)
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  • Talking about My Generation.Ian Hunter - 2008 - Critical Inquiry 34 (3):583-600.
    This article is a response to Fredric Jameson's criticisms of the author's 'The History of Theory'. For Jameson's article, 'How Not to Historicise Theory', see Critical Inquiry, 34, Spring 2008. The author situates Jameson's arguments in the context of the historicisation of theory, treating them as an example of the theoretical program to think the historical determinations of thought. It is argued that this program is an instrument for the formation of the privileged intellectual persona of the theorist.
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  • Building Beauty: Kantian aesthetics in a time of dark ecology.K. August - unknown
    In the aftermath of a normalized Foucaultian world with an all encompassing web of biopower, one remaining hope is to cultivate nimbleness. Nimbleness is an embodied aesthetic sensitivity to the material presence. Cultivating nimbleness is a particular style of cultivation; it is to willfully gather together one’s self in the wake of a formative force far richer than the derivative web of living power relationships of human embeddness within a horizon of social, economical, political and historical subjectivating power relations; which (...)
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  • The ‘Renaissance of the University’ in the European knowledge society: An exploration of principled and governmental approaches.Maarten Simons - 2007 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 26 (5):433-447.
    A ‘renaissance of the university’ in the European knowledge society is regarded today as a necessity. However, there is an ongoing debate about what that renaissance should look like. The aim of this article is to take a closer look at these debates, and in particular, the disputes related to the public role of the university in the European knowledge society. The aim however is not to assess the validity of the arguments of each of the protagonists but to place (...)
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  • Kant-Bibliographie 2002.Margit Ruffing - 2004 - Kant Studien 95 (4):505-538.
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  • Secularisation: process, program, and historiography.Ian Hunter - 2017 - Intellectual History Review 27 (1):7-29.
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  • The state of history and the empire of metaphysics.Ian Hunter - 2005 - History and Theory 44 (2):289–303.
    One of the curious things about this challenging book is that its ostensible subject— the Saxon medical and political scientist Hermann Conring (1606–1681)— is not mentioned in the title. Constantin Fasolt argues that we cannot know what Conring really thought or meant in his writings, which means that his topic cannot be Conring as such and must instead be that which occludes our knowledge of him, the titular limits of history. Given that we do in fact learn a good deal (...)
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  • Kant and the Prussian Religious Edict: Metaphysics within the Bounds of Political Reason Alone.Ian Hunter - unknown
    The paper examines how the Religious Edict, seen as a public-law instrument for the management of religious peace, might provide a new context for Kant's theology, now seen as an unsettling public intervention in a concrete religious and political culture. I shall begin by outlining a revisionist account of the Religious Edict as a representative instance of Prussian 'enlightened absolutist' Religionspolitik ; then move on to a sketch of Kant's philosophical theology as a rational religious intervention in the volatile North (...)
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  • Arguments over obligation: Teaching time and place in moral philosophy.Ian Hunter - 2003 - In Teaching the New Histories of Philosophy: A Conference. Princeton, USA: University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. pp. 131-168.
    The paper concentrates on two questions: first, the problem of how to introduce students to philosophical argument in a contextualised and pluralist manner; and, second, the question of what kind of texts such a pedagogy requires at its disposal. The two questions are of course intimately related, as the dominance of the single-aim present-centred approach brings with it a highly selective publication of the archive, in editions typically suited to the aims of rational reconstruction rather than historical investigation.
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