An intellectual history of theoretical innovation in the Anglo-American humanities (2007–2011)
- Abstract:
- The post-1960s moment of theory in the humanities academy is usually treated as an unprecedented series of theoretical innovations, displacing exhausted pre-theoretical disciplines. Departing from that view, this project investigates a new intellectual-historical hypothesis: namely, that the moment of theory represents the return of an old but still-powerful intellectual tradition, European university metaphysics, but as a practice of self-cultivation rather than as a doctrine. Delivering its results in a series of articles and a major monograph, the project promises to transform our understanding of contemporary humanities theory by showing its institutional indebtedness to metaphysics as a mode of intellectual self-culture.
- Grant type:
- ARC Discovery Projects
- Researchers:
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- Funded by:
- Australian Research Council
