Dalia Nassar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She works on the history of modern German 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 (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and editor of The Relevance of Romanticism (Oxford University Press, 2014).Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. Her research covers eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and phenomenology. She is the author of three monographs, most recently The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2020) and editor or co-editor of seven further volumes.

...a much-needed contribution to literature on the history of philosophy

• Editors' Introduction Translation, Acknowledgements, SourcesChapter One: Germaine de Staël Introduction On Women Writers Kant On the Influence of the New Philosophy on the SciencesChapter Two: Karoline von Günderrode Introduction Fichte's The Vocation of Humankind Philosophy of Nature The Idea of Nature The Idea of the EarthChapter Three: Bettina Brentano von Arnim Introduction GünderodeChapter Four: Hedwig Dohm Introduction Nietzsche and Women The New Mother The Old Woman On the Sexual Morality of WomenChapter Five: Clara Zetkin Introduction For the Liberation of Women Women's Suffrage Save the Scottsboro Boys!Chapter Six: Lou Salomé Introduction Selections from The EroticChapter Seven: Rosa Luxemburg Introduction Wage Labor, selections from Introduction to Political EconomyChapter Eight: Edith Stein Introduction Selections from On Empathy Chapter Nine: Gerda Walther Introduction A Contribution to the Ontology of Social Communities (selections)Bibliography for Editors' Introductions Bibliography for Translated Text

Dalia Nassar is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She works on the history of modern German 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 (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and editor of The Relevance of Romanticism (Oxford University Press, 2014).Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. Her research covers eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and phenomenology. She is the author of three monographs, most recently The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2020) and editor or co-editor of seven further volumes.

...a much-needed contribution to literature on the history of philosophy

• Editors' Introduction Translation, Acknowledgements, SourcesChapter One: Germaine de Staël Introduction On Women Writers Kant On the Influence of the New Philosophy on the SciencesChapter Two: Karoline von Günderrode Introduction Fichte's The Vocation of Humankind Philosophy of Nature The Idea of Nature The Idea of the EarthChapter Three: Bettina Brentano von Arnim Introduction GünderodeChapter Four: Hedwig Dohm Introduction Nietzsche and Women The New Mother The Old Woman On the Sexual Morality of WomenChapter Five: Clara Zetkin Introduction For the Liberation of Women Women's Suffrage Save the Scottsboro Boys!Chapter Six: Lou Salomé Introduction Selections from The EroticChapter Seven: Rosa Luxemburg Introduction Wage Labor, selections from Introduction to Political EconomyChapter Eight: Edith Stein Introduction Selections from On Empathy Chapter Nine: Gerda Walther Introduction A Contribution to the Ontology of Social Communities (selections)Bibliography for Editors' Introductions Bibliography for Translated Text