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History of European IdeasISSN: 0191-6599 (Print) 1873-541X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rhei20Spirituality and philosophy in post-structuralisttheoryIan HunterTo cite this article: Ian Hunter (2009) Spirituality and philosophy in post-structuralist theory,History of European Ideas, 35:2, 265-275, DOI: 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2008.11.002To link to this article: 002Published online: 03 Jan 2012.Submit your article to this journalArticle views: 147View related articlesFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found tion?journalCode rhei20Download by: [UQ Library]Date: 02 May 2016, At: 07:22
History of European Ideas 35 (2009) 265–275Contents lists available at ScienceDirectHistory of European Ideasjournal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/histeuroideasSpirituality and philosophy in post-structuralist theoryIan HunterUniversity of Queensland, Centre for the History of European Discourses, 19 Mortlake Road, Graceville 4075, AustraliaDownloaded by [UQ Library] at 07:22 02 May 2016A R T I C L E I N F OAvailable online 27 December ryHumanitiesUniversityPersonaEdmund HusserlMartin HeideggerJacques DerridaA B S T R A C TThis paper discusses the role of a particular form of philosophical spirituality in theemergence of post-structuralist theory. Initially elaborated in the post-Kantianmetaphysics of Husserl and Heidegger, and focused in recondite acts of intellectualself-transformation, this form of spirituality was transposed into a literary hermeneuticsthat permitted its wider dissemination in the Anglo-American humanities academy. Poststructuralist theory is the result of this historical transformation.ß 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Christianity, Gregory of Nyssa had insisted, was the ‘sublime philosophy’. Its theology and higher moral practices . . .were not for beginners, still less for the uninitiated. It was paideia for ‘those inside’, not shared with those ‘outside’. Butphilosophy had always been seen in this light. Philosophy was a vocation to a higher level of intellectual and moralendeavor. The philosopher was called upon to adopt a distinctive and exacting way of life. . . . Groomed in theaccustomed manner, a few serious young notables would rise, through becoming philosophers, to the forbiddingheights of a life-style different from that of the majority of their peers.1This paper is a contribution to an intellectual history of what has been called theory in the post-1960s Anglo-Americanhumanities academy.2 I have earlier suggested that the theory phenomenon can be envisaged as forming a spectrumbetween two poles.3 At one pole theory refers to a neo-Kantian style of structuralist analysis. Here it is understood via themodel of an a priori language or grammar and is oriented to the formation of theoretical human sciences — ‘structural’linguistics, semiotics, anthropology, political economy, psychology — understood as sciences of possible experience.4 At theother pole, theory embraces a post-Kantian — Husserlian and Heideggerian — style of hermeneutics, organised around thefigure of the ‘event’ or the ‘other’ that breaks through formal structures in a transfigurative moment. The present paperfocuses on the Husserlian and Heideggerian or ‘post-structuralist’ end of the theory spectrum, mainly as it is manifest inphenomenological and deconstructive forms of hermeneutics and literary criticism.E-mail address: i.hunter@uq.edu.au.Peter Brown, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (Madison, 1992), 123.Research for the paper was supported through the award of an Australian Professorial Fellowship. It was delivered as a public lecture for the SussexCentre for Intellectual History in October 2008. I am grateful to Professors Knud Haakonssen and Richard Whatmore for making this possible.3Ia
6 Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981–1982, trans. G. Burchell, ed. F. Gros (New York, 2006), 15. 7 Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 15. 8 Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 16. 9
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