Description
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.
Table of Contents
Editors' IntroductionSection One: Figures1. Amalia Holst (1758-1829)Andrew Cooper2. Germaine de Sta?l (1766-1817)Karen de Bruin3. Sophie Mereau (1770-1806)Adrian Daub4. Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833)Paula Keller5. Karoline von G?nderrode (1780-1806)Anna Ezekiel6. Bettina Brentano von Arnim (1785-1859)Anne Pollok 7. Fanny Lewald (1811-1889)Ulrike Wagner8. Hedwig Dohm (1831-1919)Sandra Shapshay 9. Lou Salom? (1861-1937) Katharina Teresa Kraus10. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)Lydia Patton11. Edith Landmann-Kalischer (1877-1951)Daniel O. Dahlstrom12. Else Voigtl?nder (1882-1946) ?ngrid Vendrell Ferran13. Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888-1966)Ronny Miron 14. Gerda Walther (1897-1977)Rodney K. B. Parker15. Edith Stein (1891-1942)Dermot Brendan MoranSection Two: Movements16. Towards a More Inclusive Enlightenment: German Women on Culture, Education, and Prejudice in the late Eighteenth CenturyCorey W. Dyck17. Idealism and RomanticismAlison Laura Stone and Giulia Valpione18. Marxism and the Woman Question in Imperial and Weimar GermanyCat Moir19. Feminist Philosophizing in Nineteenth-Century German Women's MovementsLydia Moland20. Women Philosophers and the Neo-Kantian MovementKatherina Kinzel21. Two Female PessimistsFrederick C. Beiser 22. The Emergence of a Phenomenology of Spirit: 1910-1922Clinton TolleySection Three: Topics23. The Idea of the Earth in G?nderrode, Schelling, and HegelKaren Ng24. Women and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science in the German TraditionDaniela Katharina Helbig25. Trends in AestheticsSamantha Matherne26. Spinozism Around 1800 and BeyondJason Maurice Yonover27. EthicsJoe Saunders28. Social and Political PhilosophyKristin Gjesdal29. Plants, Animals, and the EarthDalia Nassar30. The Philosophical Letter and German Women Writers in RomanticismRenata Fuchs31. The American Reception of German Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth CenturyDorothy RogersIndex
