J Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 20369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3156-1962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Imaginative Hope
While political philosophers often assume that we need to imagine a better future in order to hope for it, philosophers of hope doubt that hope and imagination are constitutively intertwined. In order to solve this puzzle, the article introduces a particular kind of hope in which we imaginatively inhabit a desired future. Combining insights from the philosophy of hope and of imagination, I unpack what imaginative hope is and why it is particularl…
Justice for earth dwellers: A reply to my critics
In responding to the stimulating commentaries by Alice Pinheiro Walla, Anna Stilz and Elisabeth Ellis, I aim to clarify and stimulate further engagement with some of the main arguments in ‘Kant’s Grounded Cosmopolitanism’. In particular, I highlight two premises that are seminal to Kant’s systematic framework of political morality as I reconstruct it: the radically relational and political nature of rights. While the commentators articulate vario…
Reconciliation or Anticipation: Reasonable Hope beyond Rawls
What may democratic citizens hope for? In order to answer this question, this article takes its cue from John Rawls’s notion of reasonable hope. Rawls is acutely aware of a tension we face in demarcating the limits of hope in democratic politics, yet fails to resolve it: hope should allow us to critically distance ourselves from the existing social world, yet not be entirely disconnected from it. In order to do justice to both desiderata, I propo…
Introduction: The political philosophy of hope
Hope is in a twofold crises in Western societies: perceived as unavailable by some and as undesirable by others. Against this background, this introduction argues that there is a need to ask anew what (if anything) citizens should hope for. After some introductory remarks both about the current role of hope in the public arena and important developments in recent philosophical debates, I provide an overview of the contributions to the Special Iss…
The Predicament of Practical Reason
According to Lea Ypi, Kant’s attempt in the first Critique to unify reason via the practical route fails because his notion of purposiveness as design commits him to a dogmatic metaphysics. I challenge this claim on two grounds. First, I argue that practical reason does not have an interest in a strong modal connection that guarantees the unity of freedom and nature rather than a weak modal connection that merely affirms the possibility of our en…
Supplemental Material for Pain Sensitivity Predicts Support for Moral and Political Views Across the Aisle
Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism: Original Common Possession and the Right to Visit
Hope from Despair
The public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace and WWF to Bill Gates and Al Gore.11 Most recently, see for instance Gates 2021. The promises of scientific and technological advance in particular, they argue, give us reason to be hopeful that it is in our hands to halt the incipient climate catastrophe. We just need to roll up our …
Looking back, looking forward: Progress, hope, and history
In his famous interpretation of Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus, Walter Benjamin (2007, pp. 257–258) sets out to bury the idea of progress. Progress is depicted as a storm that "blows in from paradise" and "irresistibly propels" the angel of history into the future. His back to the future, the angel faces the past and "sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." History's countless …
Defying democratic despair: A Kantian account of hope in politics
In times of a prevailing sense of crisis and disorder in modern politics, there is a growing sentiment that anger, despair or resignation are more appropriate attitudes to navigate the world than hope. Political philosophers have long shared this suspicion and shied away from theorising hope more systematically. The aim of this article is to resist this tendency by showing that hope constitutes an integral part of democratic politics in particula…
Property without authority? Between natural law and the Kantian state
In Territorial Sovereignty, Anna Stilz seeks to combine a Kant-inspired moral justification of the state with a natural law-inspired account of ‘foundational title’. The aim of my essay is to show that the contrasting ways in which these two frameworks conceptualize the relation between property (or rights over objects more generally) and authority lead to tensions on two levels of Stilz’s own argument. Concerning individuals’ occupation of land,…
Putting proximity in its place
Hope in political philosophy
The language of hope is a ubiquitous part of political life, but its value is increasingly contested. While there is an emerging debate about hope in political philosophy, an assessment of the prevalent scepticism about its role in political practice is still outstanding. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of historical and recent treatments of hope in political philosophy and to indicate lines of further research. We argue that ev…
The power of economic models: The case of the EU's fiscal regulation framework
This article is concerned with the impact of economic ideas on political processes and decision-making. We argue that economic models can serve as a transmission device between economic paradigms and policy programs, which allow actors drawing on the model to exercise power in decision-making. We illustrate this argument by focusing on the European Commission's 'potential output' model, which represents a core pillar of EU fiscal governance as it…
EU citizens in post-Brexit UK: The case for automatic naturalisation
One of the most passionately contested issues in the aftermath of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in the June 2016 referendum concerned the standing of EU citizens residing in British territory. This article addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. Connecting the issue to recent debates about immigrant rights and the political significance of territorial presence, I argue that non-citizen residents…
Gentrification and occupancy rights
What, if anything, is problematic about gentrification? This article addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. We argue that gentrification is problematic insofar as it involves a violation of city-dwellers’ occupancy rights. We distinguish these rights from other forms of territorial rights and discuss the different implications of the argument for urban governance. If we agree on the ultimate importance of bein…
Pragmatic Belief and Political Agency
According to a recent methodological critique, much of contemporary political theory has lost touch with the realities of political life. The aim of this article is to problematise the underlying antagonism between distant ideals and concrete contexts of agency. Drawing on Kant’s notion of pragmatic Belief – the idea that in certain situations we can put full confidence in something we lack sufficient evidence for – I point to the distinctly prac…
Cosmopolitanism for Earth Dwellers: Kant on the Right to be Somewhere
The paper provides a systematic account of Kant’s ‘right to be somewhere’ as introduced in the Doctrine of Right. My claim is that Kant’s concern with the concurrent existence of a plurality of corporeal agents on the earth’s surface (to which the right speaks) occupies a rarely appreciated conceptual space in his mature political philosophy. In grounding a particular kind of moral relation that is ‘external’ (as located in bounded space) but not…
No right to unilaterally claim your territory: On the consistency of Kantian statism
The paper examines the consistency of recent Kantian justifications of state authority through reflection on the normative implications of states’ territorial nature. I claim that their conceptual structure leaves these accounts unable to close the justificatory gap that emerges at the transition from legitimate authority simpliciter, to legitimate state authority. None of the strategies Kantian statists have come up with in order to solve this p…
Pioneer countries and the global diffusion of environmental innovations: Theses from the viewpoint of ecological modernisation theory
The individual age at menopause — An appropriate indicator of postmenopausal body composition
The interaction between age at menopause and postmenopausal body composition development was tested with in 178 Viennese women aged 47 to 68 years (x=55.4 yr). Postmenopausal body composition was described using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry by absolute fat and lean mass and bone mineral content of the whole body, the arms, legs, the trunk and the head. Upper and lower amount of body fat, the fat percentages of the individual body compartments…
The Impact of Nutritional Status on Body Fat Distribution Patterns in Pre- And Postmenopausal Females
This study examines the impact of nutritional status, classified by body mass index, on sex specific fat distribution patterns dependent on menopausal status in 467 pre-, peri- or postmenopausal females. Absolute and relative amounts of upper and lower body fat were estimated by means of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. It was found that low weight, independent of menopausal status, leads to the typical gynoid pattern of fat distribution while e…
Menopause-associated differences in female fat patterning estimated by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
The aim of the present study was to describe and quantify the typical changes in fat patterning from premenopause to postmenopause. The absolute and relative fat and lean body mass were estimated using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in 461 healthy non-obese females between the ages of 18 and 64 years (x = 43.2). Significant differences (p < 0.001) in absolute and relative fat mass, body weight and body mass index between pre-, peri- and postmen…
Anthropometric characteristics and pulsatile growth hormone secretion patterns in premenopausal and postmenopausal women from Austria
The intercorrelations between 18 anthropometric variables, describing amount and distribution of subcutaneous fat tissue, and 12 growth hormone (GH) levels which had been obtained at intervals of 2 hours over a period of 24 hours, were tested in 25 premenopausal and 23 postmenopausal women from Austria. The 12 GH levels were included in the analyses because the GH shows typical pulsatile secretion patterns with peak values about midnight. Initial…
Predictors of foetal and neonatal mortality in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. A multivariate analysis
Pioneer countries and the global diffusion of environmental innovations: Theses from the viewpoint of ecological modernisation theory
Gentrification and occupancy rights
What, if anything, is problematic about gentrification? This article addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. We argue that gentrification is problematic insofar as it involves a violation of city-dwellers’ occupancy rights. We distinguish these rights from other forms of territorial rights and discuss the different implications of the argument for urban governance. If we agree on the ultimate importance of bein…
Hope from Despair
The public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace and WWF to Bill Gates and Al Gore.11 Most recently, see for instance Gates 2021. The promises of scientific and technological advance in particular, they argue, give us reason to be hopeful that it is in our hands to halt the incipient climate catastrophe. We just need to roll up our …
Hope in political philosophy
The language of hope is a ubiquitous part of political life, but its value is increasingly contested. While there is an emerging debate about hope in political philosophy, an assessment of the prevalent scepticism about its role in political practice is still outstanding. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of historical and recent treatments of hope in political philosophy and to indicate lines of further research. We argue that ev…
Defying democratic despair: A Kantian account of hope in politics
In times of a prevailing sense of crisis and disorder in modern politics, there is a growing sentiment that anger, despair or resignation are more appropriate attitudes to navigate the world than hope. Political philosophers have long shared this suspicion and shied away from theorising hope more systematically. The aim of this article is to resist this tendency by showing that hope constitutes an integral part of democratic politics in particula…
The power of economic models: The case of the EU's fiscal regulation framework
This article is concerned with the impact of economic ideas on political processes and decision-making. We argue that economic models can serve as a transmission device between economic paradigms and policy programs, which allow actors drawing on the model to exercise power in decision-making. We illustrate this argument by focusing on the European Commission's 'potential output' model, which represents a core pillar of EU fiscal governance as it…
No right to unilaterally claim your territory: On the consistency of Kantian statism
The paper examines the consistency of recent Kantian justifications of state authority through reflection on the normative implications of states’ territorial nature. I claim that their conceptual structure leaves these accounts unable to close the justificatory gap that emerges at the transition from legitimate authority simpliciter, to legitimate state authority. None of the strategies Kantian statists have come up with in order to solve this p…
EU citizens in post-Brexit UK: The case for automatic naturalisation
One of the most passionately contested issues in the aftermath of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in the June 2016 referendum concerned the standing of EU citizens residing in British territory. This article addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. Connecting the issue to recent debates about immigrant rights and the political significance of territorial presence, I argue that non-citizen residents…
Putting proximity in its place
Pragmatic Belief and Political Agency
According to a recent methodological critique, much of contemporary political theory has lost touch with the realities of political life. The aim of this article is to problematise the underlying antagonism between distant ideals and concrete contexts of agency. Drawing on Kant’s notion of pragmatic Belief – the idea that in certain situations we can put full confidence in something we lack sufficient evidence for – I point to the distinctly prac…
Predictors of foetal and neonatal mortality in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. A multivariate analysis
Anthropometric characteristics and pulsatile growth hormone secretion patterns in premenopausal and postmenopausal women from Austria
The intercorrelations between 18 anthropometric variables, describing amount and distribution of subcutaneous fat tissue, and 12 growth hormone (GH) levels which had been obtained at intervals of 2 hours over a period of 24 hours, were tested in 25 premenopausal and 23 postmenopausal women from Austria. The 12 GH levels were included in the analyses because the GH shows typical pulsatile secretion patterns with peak values about midnight. Initial…
Menopause-associated differences in female fat patterning estimated by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
The aim of the present study was to describe and quantify the typical changes in fat patterning from premenopause to postmenopause. The absolute and relative fat and lean body mass were estimated using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in 461 healthy non-obese females between the ages of 18 and 64 years (x = 43.2). Significant differences (p < 0.001) in absolute and relative fat mass, body weight and body mass index between pre-, peri- and postmen…
The Impact of Nutritional Status on Body Fat Distribution Patterns in Pre- And Postmenopausal Females
This study examines the impact of nutritional status, classified by body mass index, on sex specific fat distribution patterns dependent on menopausal status in 467 pre-, peri- or postmenopausal females. Absolute and relative amounts of upper and lower body fat were estimated by means of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. It was found that low weight, independent of menopausal status, leads to the typical gynoid pattern of fat distribution while e…
The individual age at menopause — An appropriate indicator of postmenopausal body composition
The interaction between age at menopause and postmenopausal body composition development was tested with in 178 Viennese women aged 47 to 68 years (x=55.4 yr). Postmenopausal body composition was described using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry by absolute fat and lean mass and bone mineral content of the whole body, the arms, legs, the trunk and the head. Upper and lower amount of body fat, the fat percentages of the individual body compartments…
Pioneer countries and the global diffusion of environmental innovations: Theses from the viewpoint of ecological modernisation theory
No right to unilaterally claim your territory: On the consistency of Kantian statism
The paper examines the consistency of recent Kantian justifications of state authority through reflection on the normative implications of states’ territorial nature. I claim that their conceptual structure leaves these accounts unable to close the justificatory gap that emerges at the transition from legitimate authority simpliciter, to legitimate state authority. None of the strategies Kantian statists have come up with in order to solve this p…
Cosmopolitanism for Earth Dwellers: Kant on the Right to be Somewhere
The paper provides a systematic account of Kant’s ‘right to be somewhere’ as introduced in the Doctrine of Right. My claim is that Kant’s concern with the concurrent existence of a plurality of corporeal agents on the earth’s surface (to which the right speaks) occupies a rarely appreciated conceptual space in his mature political philosophy. In grounding a particular kind of moral relation that is ‘external’ (as located in bounded space) but not…
Gentrification and occupancy rights
What, if anything, is problematic about gentrification? This article addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. We argue that gentrification is problematic insofar as it involves a violation of city-dwellers’ occupancy rights. We distinguish these rights from other forms of territorial rights and discuss the different implications of the argument for urban governance. If we agree on the ultimate importance of bein…
Pragmatic Belief and Political Agency
According to a recent methodological critique, much of contemporary political theory has lost touch with the realities of political life. The aim of this article is to problematise the underlying antagonism between distant ideals and concrete contexts of agency. Drawing on Kant’s notion of pragmatic Belief – the idea that in certain situations we can put full confidence in something we lack sufficient evidence for – I point to the distinctly prac…
EU citizens in post-Brexit UK: The case for automatic naturalisation
One of the most passionately contested issues in the aftermath of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in the June 2016 referendum concerned the standing of EU citizens residing in British territory. This article addresses this question from the perspective of normative political theory. Connecting the issue to recent debates about immigrant rights and the political significance of territorial presence, I argue that non-citizen residents…
Property without authority? Between natural law and the Kantian state
In Territorial Sovereignty, Anna Stilz seeks to combine a Kant-inspired moral justification of the state with a natural law-inspired account of ‘foundational title’. The aim of my essay is to show that the contrasting ways in which these two frameworks conceptualize the relation between property (or rights over objects more generally) and authority lead to tensions on two levels of Stilz’s own argument. Concerning individuals’ occupation of land,…
Putting proximity in its place
Hope in political philosophy
The language of hope is a ubiquitous part of political life, but its value is increasingly contested. While there is an emerging debate about hope in political philosophy, an assessment of the prevalent scepticism about its role in political practice is still outstanding. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of historical and recent treatments of hope in political philosophy and to indicate lines of further research. We argue that ev…
The power of economic models: The case of the EU's fiscal regulation framework
This article is concerned with the impact of economic ideas on political processes and decision-making. We argue that economic models can serve as a transmission device between economic paradigms and policy programs, which allow actors drawing on the model to exercise power in decision-making. We illustrate this argument by focusing on the European Commission's 'potential output' model, which represents a core pillar of EU fiscal governance as it…
Looking back, looking forward: Progress, hope, and history
In his famous interpretation of Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus, Walter Benjamin (2007, pp. 257–258) sets out to bury the idea of progress. Progress is depicted as a storm that "blows in from paradise" and "irresistibly propels" the angel of history into the future. His back to the future, the angel faces the past and "sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." History's countless …
Defying democratic despair: A Kantian account of hope in politics
In times of a prevailing sense of crisis and disorder in modern politics, there is a growing sentiment that anger, despair or resignation are more appropriate attitudes to navigate the world than hope. Political philosophers have long shared this suspicion and shied away from theorising hope more systematically. The aim of this article is to resist this tendency by showing that hope constitutes an integral part of democratic politics in particula…
Kant's Grounded Cosmopolitanism: Original Common Possession and the Right to Visit
Hope from Despair
The public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace and WWF to Bill Gates and Al Gore.11 Most recently, see for instance Gates 2021. The promises of scientific and technological advance in particular, they argue, give us reason to be hopeful that it is in our hands to halt the incipient climate catastrophe. We just need to roll up our …
The Predicament of Practical Reason
According to Lea Ypi, Kant’s attempt in the first Critique to unify reason via the practical route fails because his notion of purposiveness as design commits him to a dogmatic metaphysics. I challenge this claim on two grounds. First, I argue that practical reason does not have an interest in a strong modal connection that guarantees the unity of freedom and nature rather than a weak modal connection that merely affirms the possibility of our en…
Supplemental Material for Pain Sensitivity Predicts Support for Moral and Political Views Across the Aisle
Reconciliation or Anticipation: Reasonable Hope beyond Rawls
What may democratic citizens hope for? In order to answer this question, this article takes its cue from John Rawls’s notion of reasonable hope. Rawls is acutely aware of a tension we face in demarcating the limits of hope in democratic politics, yet fails to resolve it: hope should allow us to critically distance ourselves from the existing social world, yet not be entirely disconnected from it. In order to do justice to both desiderata, I propo…
Introduction: The political philosophy of hope
Hope is in a twofold crises in Western societies: perceived as unavailable by some and as undesirable by others. Against this background, this introduction argues that there is a need to ask anew what (if anything) citizens should hope for. After some introductory remarks both about the current role of hope in the public arena and important developments in recent philosophical debates, I provide an overview of the contributions to the Special Iss…
Imaginative Hope
While political philosophers often assume that we need to imagine a better future in order to hope for it, philosophers of hope doubt that hope and imagination are constitutively intertwined. In order to solve this puzzle, the article introduces a particular kind of hope in which we imaginatively inhabit a desired future. Combining insights from the philosophy of hope and of imagination, I unpack what imaginative hope is and why it is particularl…
Justice for earth dwellers: A reply to my critics
In responding to the stimulating commentaries by Alice Pinheiro Walla, Anna Stilz and Elisabeth Ellis, I aim to clarify and stimulate further engagement with some of the main arguments in ‘Kant’s Grounded Cosmopolitanism’. In particular, I highlight two premises that are seminal to Kant’s systematic framework of political morality as I reconstruct it: the radically relational and political nature of rights. While the commentators articulate vario…
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