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Professor Ian Hunter is currently pursuing two research themes, one concerns the history of early modern political and philosophical thought, and the other, supported by an ARC Professorial Fellowship, concerns the history of theory in the modern humanities academy. Ian Hunter is an Australian Professorial Fellow working on the history of early modern political and philosophical thought, and on the emergence of theory in the 1960s humanities academy. His Rival Enlightenments appeared in 2001 and his most recent monograph is The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). In collaboration with Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) and Frank Grunert (Munich), he has just completed the first English translation of Thomasius’s works: Christian Thomasius: Essays on Church, State, and Politics (Liberty Fund, 2007).
Recently published articles include ‘Kant’s Religion and Prussian Religious Policy’, Modern Intellectual History, vol. 2, 2005, 1-27; ‘The History of Theory’, Critical Inquiry, vol. 33, 2006, 78-112; and ‘The Time of Theory: The Return of Metaphysics to the Anglo-American Humanities Academy’, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 10, 2007, 5-22.
He is currently working on the theme of the persona of the philosopher, and the intellectual history of 1960s humanities theory.
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