The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition

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 ofThe 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).

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• 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 CenturyCorey W. Dyck 17. Idealism and RomanticismAlison Laura Stone and Giulia Valpione 18. Marxism and the Woman Question in Imperial and Weimar GermanyCat Moir 19. Feminist Philosophizing in Nineteenth-Century German Women's MovementsLydia Moland 20. Women Philosophers and the Neo-Kantian MovementKatherina Kinzel 21. Two Female PessimistsFrederick C. Beiser 22. The Emergence of a Phenomenology of Spirit: 1910-1922Clinton Tolley Section Three: Topics 23. The Idea of the Earth in Günderrode, Schelling, and HegelKaren Ng 24. Women and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Science in the German TraditionDaniela Katharina Helbig 25. Trends in AestheticsSamantha Matherne 26. Spinozism Around 1800 and BeyondJason Maurice Yonover 27. EthicsJoe Saunders 28. Social and Political PhilosophyKristin Gjesdal 29. Plants, Animals, and the EarthDalia Nassar 30. The Philosophical Letter and German Women Writers in RomanticismRenata Fuchs 31. The American Reception of German Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth CenturyDorothy Rogers Index