Critical response II: Talking about my generation

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 583-600

  Hunter, Ian ^a  

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1. At the risk of waking the dead and making them do battle again, it can be noted that I offered a discussion of this set of issues in Hunter, "Aesthetics and Cultural Studies," in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula A. Treichler (New York, 1992), pp. 347-67,
2. to which Jameson responded inter alia in Fredric Jameson, "On 'Cultural Studies,'" Social Text, no. 34 (1993): 17-52.
3. For overviews, see Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault,
4. trans. Michael Chase (Oxford, 1995), and Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981-1982, trans. Graham Burchell, ed. Frédéric Gros (New York, 2006).
5. See Hadot, Plotinus, or The Simplicity of Vision, trans. Chase (Chicago, 1993),
6. and Hunter, "The Morals of Metaphysics: Kant's Groundwork as Intellectual Paideia," Critical Inquiry 28 (Summer 2002): 908-29.
7. See David Saunders, "The Judicial Persona in Historical Context: The Case of Matthew Hale," in The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity, ed. Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, and Hunter (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 140-59.
8. See Condren, "The Persona of the Philosopher and the Rhetorics of Office in Early Modern England" and Robert von Friedeburg, "Persona and Office: Althusius on the Formation of Magistrates and Councillors," in The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe, pp. 66-89,160-81.
9. See Gaukroger, Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (Cambridge, 2001).
10. See Hunter, "The History of Theory," pp. 95, 99.
11. See, for examples, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, "Metaphysik [Leibniz]," in Die Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts, ed. Helmut Holzhey, Schmidt-Biggemann, and Jean-Pierre Schobinger, 4 vols. (Basel, 1998-2001), 4:1064-79;
12. Walter Sparn, "Kant's Doctrine of Atonement as a Theory of Subjectivity," in Kant's Philosophy of Religion Reconsidered, ed. Philip J. Rossi and Michael Wreen (Bloomington, Ind. , 1991), pp. 103-12;
13. and Hunter, "The Morals of Metaphysics. "
14. On this, see Schobinger, foreword, and Holzhey, "Der Philosoph im 17. Jahrhundert," Die Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts, 1:xxxix-lvi, 1:3-30;
15. and Condren, Gaukroger, and Hunter, "Introduction," The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe, pp. 1-16.
16. See also Philosophie und Regionalität, ed. Karol Bal, Volker Caysa, and Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Wroclaw, 1999).
17. Christian Thomasius, Cautelen zur Erlernung der Rechtsgelehrtheit, vol. 20 of Ausgewählte Werke, ed. Werner Schneiders (1713; Hildesheim, 2006), p. 113.
18. For more on this, see Ralph Häfner, "Jacob Thomasius und die Geschichte der Häresien," in Christian Thomasius (1655-1728): Neue Forschungen im Kontext der Frühaufklärung, ed. Friedrich Vollhardt (Tübingen, 1997), pp. 141-64
19. and "Das Erknenntnisproblem in der Philologie um 1700: Zum Verhältnis von Polymathie und Aporetik bei Jacob Friedrich Reimmann, Christian Thomasius, und Johann Albert Fabricius," in Philologie und Erkenntnis: Beiträge zu Begriff und Problem frühneuzeitlicher "Philologie," ed. Häfner (Tübingen, 2001), pp. 95-128;
20. and Hunter, The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 61-73.
21. See Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York, 1988)
22. and Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge, 1995);
23. and the first three volumes of J. G. A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, 4 vols, to date (Cambridge, 1999-2005).
24. See Hunter, "The History of Philosophy and the Persona of the Philosopher," Modern Intellectual History 4 (Nov. 2007): 591-92.
25. See Quentin Skinner, "Interpretation, Rationality, and Truth," Visions of Politics, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 2002), 1:27-56.
26. See Charles Taylor, "The Hermeneutics of Conflict," in Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, ed. James Tully (Princeton, N. J. , 1988), pp. 218-28.
27. For some relevant arguments, see Hunter, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 274-316
28. and "The Morals of Metaphysics"; George di Giovanni, Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774-1800 (Cambridge, 2005);
29. and Sparn, "Kant's Doctrine of Atonement as a Theory of Subjectivity. "
30. We gain some sense of the geo-intellectual regionality of Kantianism not just from the placing of several of his works on the Catholic Index during the nineteenth century but more generally from the neo-Thomist attack on the formative consequences of Kantian spirituality. This lasts into the present in the work of Alisdair MacIntyre and the "communitarians," but also more formally, for example, in Désiré Mercier, "The Two Critiques of Kant," Cardinal Mercier's Philosophical Essays: A Study in Neo-Thomism, trans, and ed. David A. Boileau (Herent, Belgium, 2002), pp. 137-50.
31. For important pointers to the manner in which Kantians entered and conquered the law, philosophy, and theology faculties of the University of Jena, see Der Aufbruch in den Kantianismus: Der Frühkantianismus an der Universität Jena von 1785-1800 und seine Vorgeschichte, ed. Norbert Hinske, Erhard Lange, and Horst Schröpfer (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1995).
32. See Immanuel Kant, "Lose Blätter zu den Fortschritten der Metaphysik," Kants Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Deusche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin et al. , 29 vols. (Berlin, 1902-1980), 20:341-43.
33. See Frank Grunert, "Die Pragmatisierung der Gelehrsamkeit: Zum Gelehrsamkeitskonzept von Christian Thomasius und im Thomasianismus," in Kultur der Kommunikation: Die europäische Gelehrtenrepublik im Zeitalter von Leibniz und Lessing, ed. Ulrich Johannes Schneider (Wiesbaden, 2005), pp. 131-53.
34. For a historical discussion of this moment, albeit one written from inside the fishbowl, see Lucien Braun, Geschichte der Philosophiegeschichte, trans. Franz Wimmer (Darmstadt, 1990).
35. See Thomasius, Cautelen zur Erlernung der Rechtsgelehrtheit, chaps. 1, 6, and 12.
36. See Ulrich Johannes Schneider, "Eclecticism and the History of Philosophy," in History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, ed. Donald R. Kelley (Rochester, N. Y. , 1997), pp. 83-101,
37. and Horst Dreitzel, "Zur Entwicklung und Eigenart der 'Eklektischen Philosophie,'" Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 18, no. 3 (1991): 281-343.
38. See Hunter, The Secularisation of the Confessional State, chaps. 4 and 5.