Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century (Innbundet)

The German Tradition

Series: Thorleif Dahls Kulturbibliotek 1

Author:

Kristin Gjesdal og Dalia Nassar

Norwegian title: Kvinner i filosofien
Norwegian subtitle: Romantikk, revolusjon, sosialt fellesskap
Author: og
Binding: Innbundet
Year: 2022
Pages: 368
Publisher: Cappelen Damm
Språk: Bokmål
Translated by: Grip, Johann og Gundersen, Karin
Series: Thorleif Dahls Kulturbibliotek
Serienummer: 1
ISBN/EAN: 9788202764609
Kategori: Narrative Non-fiction
Fag: Filosofi
Nivå: Akademisk
Overview Kvinner i filosofien

Are there women in nineteenth-century philosophy? By all means!

This anthology presents the works of nine women philosophers in the tradition from romanticism to phenomenology. The collection demonstrates their central place within movements such as German Idealism, socialism, Marxism, and philosophy of experience. It presents excerpts from central works by Germaine de Staël, Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, Hedwig Dohm, Clara Zetkin, Lou Andreas Salomé, Rosa Luxemburg, Edith Stein, and Gerda Walther. In a clear and engaging style, these philosophers address questions such as: What is truth? What is a human self? How should the human self relate to non-human nature? How should it relate to itself? How can we best think about gender and identity? What are the conditions for community? Across the contributions, we encounter a wish to philosophize beyond the boundaries of academia, narrowly construed. The editors’ introduction offers a clear overview of women’s place and position in nineteenth-century philosophy and presents each of the nine philosophers with an eye to their historical importance as well as contemporary relevance.

These are the philosophers we meet in this volume:

Germaine de Staël
Karoline von Günderrode
Bettina Brentano von Arnim
Hedwig Dohm
Clara Zetkin
Lou Salomé
Rosa Luxemburg
Edith Stein
Gerda Walther

Published in the UK by Oxford University Press.

The book is translated into Norwegian as part of the Thorleif Dahl Cultural Library.

Brightly Shining Women
Who would have believed that an anthology on dead female philosophers would be one of last year’s best non-fiction publications?
AFTENPOSTEN

Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar have written much about women philosophers. Read their essay 'A rescue mission on behalf of women philosophers' here.

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Reviews Kvinner i filosofien

Skarpt lysende kvinner 28.01.2023

Hvem skulle tro at en antologi med døde kvinnelige filosofer er en av fjorårets beste sakprosautgivelser?

Preben Jordahl, Aftenposten

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Author Kristin Gjesdal

Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She specializes in Modern European 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 and on the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series. For more information, please see her faculty webpage.

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). For more information, please see her faculty webpage.

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