Hunter, Ian
University of Queensland
i.hunter@uq.edu.au
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Research interests
Early modern natural law thought, history of jus gentium and international law, history of philosophy, eighteenth-century German public law, nineteenth-century German political and legal philosophy, history of German public church law (Staatskirchenrecht) and the religious constitution.
Projects
Comparative study of Immanuel Kant and Johann Jakob Moser on the German religious constitution. Editorial introduction to Christian Thomasius, Cautelae circa Praecognita Jurisprudentiae Ecclesiasticae, Halae 1712, 2nd edn. 1723; and the German translation, Höchstnöthige Cautelen welche ein Studiosus Juris, der sich zur Erlernung der Kirchen-Rechts-Gelahrheit auff eine kluge und geschickte Weise vorbereiten will, zu beobachten hat, Halle 1713.
Selected bibliography concerning Natural law
- Books
The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Edited Volumes
Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010. (Co-edited with Shaunnagh Dorsett).
Christian Thomasius: Essays on Church, State, and Politics. Edited, translated and with an introduction and notes by Ian Hunter, Thomas Ahnert, and Frank Grunert. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007.
Samuel Pufendorf: The Whole Duty of Man, According to the Law of Nature. Together with two discourses and a commentary by Jean Barbeyrac. Edited, with an Introduction, notes and translations, by Ian Hunter and David Saunders. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003.
Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty: Moral Right and State Authority in Early Modern Political Thought, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Press, 2002. (Co-edited with David Saunders).
- Book Chapters
Law, War, and Empire in Early Modern Protestant Jus Gentium: the Casuistries of Gentili and Vattel, in Diego Panizza and Pepe Ragoni (eds), Alberico Gentili. Giustizia, Guerra, Impero. Atti del convegno, XIV Giornata Gentiliana, San Ginesio 24-25 September 2010, Milan: Giuffrè editore, 2014, pp. 151-68.
The Uses of Natural Law in Early Modern Germany: Christian Thomasius’s Reshaping of the Legal Persona, in Christian Thorsten Callisen (ed), Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle: Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 125-40.
The Law of Nature and Nations, in Aaron Garrett (ed), The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 559-92.
The Tolerationist Programs of Thomasius and Locke, in Jon Parkin and Timothy Stanton (eds), Natural Law and Toleration in the Early Enlightenment, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 107-37.
Vattel in Revolutionary America: From the Rules of War to the Rule of Law, in Lisa Ford and Tim Rowse (eds), Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, London: Routledge, in 2012, pp. 12-22.
Natural Law as Political Philosophy, in Desmond Clarke and Catherine Wilson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 475-99.
Global Justice and Regional Metaphysics: On the Critical History of the Law of Nature and Nations, in Shaunnagh Dorsett and Ian Hunter (eds), Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010, pp. 11-29.
The Man and the Citizen: The Pluralisation of Civil Personae in Early Modern German Natural Law, in Anna Yeatman and Magdalena Zolkos (eds), Security, State and Subject Formation, New York: Continuum Books, 2010, pp. 16-35.
The Shallow Legitimacy of Secular Liberal Orders: The Case of Early Modern Brandenburg-Prussia, in Geoffrey Levey and Tariq Modood (eds), Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 27-55.
Thomasius on the Toleration of Heresy, in Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, and Cary J. Nederman (eds), Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, London: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 155-67.
Multiple Enlightenments: Rival Aufklärer at the University of Halle 1690-1730, in Martin Fitzpatrick et al., (eds), The Enlightenment World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 576-95.
The Love of a Sage or the Command of a Superior: The Natural Law Doctrines of Leibniz and Pufendorf, in T. J. Hochstrasser and Peter Schröder (eds), Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Contexts and Strategies, Berlin: Kluwer, 2003, pp. 169-93.
- Articles
'Public Law and the Limits of Philosophy: German Idealism and the Religious Constitution', Critical Inquiry, 44 (2018): 528-553.
'Giorgio Agamben’s Form of Life', Politics, Religion & Ideology, 18 ( 2017): 135-156.
'Giorgio Agamben’s Genealogy of Office', European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 4 (2017): 166-99.
'Secularisation: Process, Program, and Historiography', Intellectual History Review, 27 (2017): 7-29.
'Secularization: The Birth of a Modern Combat Concept', Modern Intellectual History, 12 (2015): 1-32.
'Hayden White’s Philosophical History', New Literary History, 45 (2014): 331-58.
'English Blasphemy', Humanity, 4 (2013): 403-28
About the Dialectical Historiography of International Law, Global Intellectual History, 1, 2016.
Religious Freedom in Early Modern Germany: Theology, Philosophy, and Legal Casuistry, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 113 (1), 2014, pp. 37-62.
The Figure of Man and the Territorialisation of Justice in ‘Enlightenment’ Natural Law: Pufendorf and Vattel, Intellectual History Review, 23 (3), 2013, pp. 289-308.
Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry, History of European Ideas, vol. 39 (4), 2013, pp. 477-502.
‘A Jus Gentium for America’. The Rules of War and the Rule of Law in the Revolutionary United States, Journal of the History of International Law 14, 2012, pp. 173-206.
Law, War, and Casuistry in Vattel’s Jus Gentium, Parergon 28 (2), 2011, pp. 87-104.
Vattel’s Law of Nations: Diplomatic Casuistry for the Protestant Nation, Grotiana 31, 2010, pp. 108-40.
Kant’s Regional Cosmopolitanism, Journal of the History of International Law 12, 2010, pp. 165-88.
Natural Law, Historiography, and Aboriginal Sovereignty, Legal History 11/2, 2007, pp. 137-68.
The Passions of the Prince: Moral Philosophy and Staatskirchenrecht in Thomasius’s Conception of Sovereignty, Cultural and Social History 2, 2005, pp. 113-29.
Conflicting Obligations: Pufendorf, Leibniz and Barbeyrac on Civil Authority, History of Political Thought 25, 2004, pp. 670-99.
Reading Thomasius on Heresy, Eighteenth-Century Thought 2, 2004, pp. 39-56.
Bringing the State to England: Andrew Tooke’s Translation of Samuel Pufendorf’s De officio hominis et civis, History of Political Thought 24, 2003, pp. 218-34. (Co-authored with David Saunders).
The Recovery of Natural Law: Hochstrasser’s History of Morality, Economy & Society 30, 2001, pp. 354-67.
Philosophical Priestcraft: Christian Thomasius’ Attack on Protestant Scholasticism, History of Education Review 30, 2001, pp. 1-16.
Christian Thomasius and the Desacralisation of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Ideas 61, 2000, pp. 595-616.
