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1、CriticalResponseIHowNottoHistoricizeTheoryFredricJamesonThecontentionthatcurrentattacksontheoryarepoliticallymotivatedremainsatopicforfurtherresearch,asIanHuntermightputit;thathisowncomplexandoftensubtleessayTheHistoryofTheoryisverymuchaskirmishinthatcampaigncan
2、notbedoubted(seeIanHunter,TheHistoryofTheory,CriticalInquiry33[Autumn2006]:78112).Theessayrevivesacertainnumberofthethemescrucialtotheantitheoreticalandspecificallyantidialecticalpolemicwagedwithintheoryitselfafewyearsagodenunciationsofidealism,totalization,teleo
3、logy,andthelikewhilereidentifyingthesethemeswithseeminglynovellabelsdrawnfromHuntershistoricalresearchonwhathearguestohavebeenRivalEnlight-enments,namely,anoppositionbetweenuniversitymetaphysicsandcivilphilosophyineighteenth-centuryGermanthought.1Thisbookpositst
4、heexistenceofahistoricaldebatebetweenincompatibletraditions,whichhethereratherobsessivelydocumentsandthenendowsitwithcontemporarysignificance,insofarasitleadshimtowonderwhynoonehaseverperceivedit.Heconcludesthatthetriumphoftheallegedlymeta-physicaltraditionhasbee
5、ntoconcealandabsorbifnotobliteratetheverytracesofitscivicandjuridicaloppositenumberdowntoourowntime.Theattackontheory,then,describedasthelatestinheritorofuniversitymetaphysics,canbeseenasastrategicpartofamoregeneralcrusadeforthehistoricalrediscoveryandacknowledg
6、ementofthesecularandjurid-1.SeeIanHunter,RivalEnlightenments:CivilandMetaphysicalPhilosophyinEarlyModernGermany(Cambridge,2001).CriticalInquiry34(Spring2008)©2008byTheUniversityofChicago.0093-1896/08/3403-0005$10.00.Allrightsreserved.563564FredricJameson/Critica
7、lResponseicalEnlightenmentalternative,whichhasitsroletoplaytodayaswell,hefeels.Indeed,itwillbethoughtthatthisalternativealreadyhasitscontem-poraryanaloguesinPocockscivichumanismaswellinCarlSchmittscallforaradicaldisciplinaryseparationofthepoliticalfromtheethical
8、orphilosoph-icalasafieldofstudy(andaction).Both,tobesure,arementionedinHuntersbook(withqualifications);buttheyunderscoreatleastoneoftheparadoxesofhispolemicstance,namel
