Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century Women Philosophers in the - German Traditio

This Oxford Handbook celebrates the work of trailblazing women in the history of modern philosophy. Through thirty-one original chapters, it engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition, and covers women's contribution to major philosophical movements, including romanticism and idealism, socialism, and Marxism, Nietzscheanism, feminism, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. It opens with a section on figures, offering essays focused on fifteen thinkers in this tradition, before moving on to sections of essays on movement and topics. Across the volume's chapters, essays examine women's contributions to key philosophical areas such as epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, ecology, education, and the philosophy of nature.

List of contents

• Editors' Introduction


• Section One: Figures


• 1. Amalia Holst (1758-1829)


• Andrew Cooper


• 2. Germaine de Staël (1766-1817)


• Karen de Bruin


• 3. Sophie Mereau (1770-1806)


• Adrian Daub


• 4. Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833)


• Paula Keller


• 5. Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)


• Anna Ezekiel


• 6. Bettina Brentano von Arnim (1785-1859)


• Anne Pollok


• 7. Fanny Lewald (1811-1889)


• Ulrike Wagner


• 8. Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919)


• Sandra Shapshay


• 9. Lou Salomé (1861-1937)


• Katharina Teresa Kraus


• 10. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)


• Lydia Patton


• 11. Edith Landmann-Kalischer (1877-1951)


• Daniel O. Dahlstrom


• 12. Else Voigtländer (1882-1946)


• Íngrid Vendrell Ferran


• 13. Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966)


• Ronny Miron


• 14. Gerda Walther (1897-1977)


• Rodney K. B. Parker


• 15. Edith Stein (1891-1942)


• Dermot Brendan Moran


• Section Two: Movements


• 16. Towards a More Inclusive Enlightenment: German Women on Culture, Education, and Prejudice in the late Eighteenth Century


• Corey W. Dyck


• 17. Idealism and Romanticism


• Alison Laura Stone and Giulia Valpione


• 18. Marxism and the Woman Question in Imperial and Weimar Germany


• Cat Moir


• 19. Feminist Philosophizing in Nineteenth-Century German Women's Movements


• Lydia Moland


• 20. Women Philosophers and the Neo-Kantian Movement


• Katherina Kinzel


• 21. Two Female Pessimists


• Frederick C. Beiser


• 22. The Emergence of a Phenomenology of Spirit: 1910-1922


• Clinton Tolley


• Section Three: Topics


• 23. The Idea of the Earth in Günderrode, Schelling, and Hegel


• Karen Ng


• 24. Women and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science in the German Tradition


• Daniela Katharina Helbig


• 25. Trends in Aesthetics


• Samantha Matherne


• 26. Spinozism Around 1800 and Beyond


• Jason Maurice Yonover


• 27. Ethics


• Joe Saunders


• 28. Social and Political Philosophy


• Kristin Gjesdal


• 29. Plants, Animals, and the Earth


• Dalia Nassar


• 30. The Philosophical Letter and German Women Writers in Romanticism


• Renata Fuchs


• 31. The American Reception of German Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century


• Dorothy Rogers


• Index

About the author

Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She works on the history of modern German philosophy (with a special focus on late eighteenth and early nineteenth century philosophy), aesthetics, hermeneutics, and phenomenology. She is the author of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge, 2009/2011), Herder's Hermeneutics (Cambridge, 2017/2019), and The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (Oxford, 2022). She is the editor and co-editor of eight further volumes in her areas of scholarship. With Dalia Nassar, she is the editor of the recently published Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford, 2021).

Dalia Nassar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She works on the history of modern German philosophy (with a special focus on late eighteenth and early nineteenth century philosophy), aesthetics, the philosophy of nature and environmental philosophy. She is the author of

The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy (Chicago, 2014) and Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Oxford, 2022) and with Kristin Gjesdal, she is the editor of Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford, 2021).

Summary

This Oxford Handbook engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition. It investigates women's contributions to key philosophical areas such as epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, ecology, education, and the philosophy of nature and examines their role in the formation and development of major philosophical moments, including romanticism and idealism, socialism, Marxism, Nietzscheanism, feminism, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. Through thirty-one newly commissioned chapters, the volume explores how women often took philosophical premises and positions in innovative and radical directions, and thereby sheds new light on the major movements of the period and their continuing philosophical potential. As the contributors demonstrate, women were generally excluded from academic discourse and therefore had to seek alternative means by which to carry out their philosophical research -- often by bringing philosophy to a wider public, and allowing fundamental existential, social, and political questions to determine their philosophizing.

By investigating the works, influence, and legacy of a number of understudied and overlooked philosophers, the Handbook contributes to the ongoing effort to revise our knowledge of the history of philosophy, deepen our grasp of the philosophical potential of various arguments, positions, and movements, and critically rethink the narratives by which the discipline understands itself. This volume will serve as a crucial addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century philosophy and the movements that made it up.

Product details

• Authors: Gjesdal, Kristin (Professor of Philosophy Gjesdal
• Assisted by: Kristin Gjesdal (Editor), Gjesdal Kristin (Editor), Dalia Nassar (Editor), Nassar Dalia (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2023
• EAN: 9780190066239
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006623-9
• No. of pages: 800
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought