New Releases by Ian Hunter

Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. He treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideiai, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant''s supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This study reveals the extraordinary historical self-consciousness of the civil philosophers, who repudiated university metaphysics as inimical to the intellectual formation of those administering desacralized territorial states. The book argues that the marginalization of civil philosophy in post-Kantian philosophical history may itself be seen as a continuation of the struggle between the rival enlightenments. Combining careful and well-documented scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents penetrating insights for philosophers and historians alike.

“A análise da ficção sobre monstros, chama a atenção para o caráter problemático da natureza da subjetividade pressuposta na teoria pedagógica — sobretudo na teoria pedagógica crítica. A “pedagogia dos monstros” não desenvolve uma pedagogia dirigida à formação de monstros nem uma pedagogia que utilize os monstros com fins formativos. A “pedagogia dos monstros” recorre aos monstros para mostrar que o processo de formação da subjetividade é muito mais complicada do que nos fazem crer os pressupostos sobre o “sujeito” que constituem o núcleo das teorias pedagógicas — críticas ou não.”

Diary written during a five-week American tour in November and December of 1972.

Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the ''rise of English'' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents a sustained and historically informed challenge to that view.