Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Herausgeber: Dyck, Corey W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume showcases the vibrant and diverse contributions made to philosophy by women in 18th-century Germany and explores their under-appreciated influence upon the course of modern philosophy. Thirteen women are profiled and their work on topics in logic, metaphysics, aesthetics, and moral and political philosophy is discussed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780198843894
• ISBN-10: 0198843895
• Artikelnr.: 60907401

Autorenporträt

Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Scholar for Arts and Humanities at Western University. He is the author of Kant and Rational Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2014) and is the translator and editor of the collection Early Modern German Philosophy: 1690-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2019). He has held visiting positions at Oxford University, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also recently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* Introduction
* Part I. Women and the Leibnizian-Wolffian Philosophy
* 1: Christian Leduc: Sophie of Hanover on the Soul-Body Relationship
* 2: Stefanie Buchenau: A Modern Diotima: Johanna Charlotte Unzer on
Wolffianism and Aesthetics
* Part II. The Question of Education
* 3: Corey W. Dyck: On Prejudice and the Limits to Learnedness:
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben and the Querelle des Femmes
* 4: Robert B. Louden: A Mere Skeleton of the Sciences? Amalia Holst's
Critique of Basedow and Campe
* Part III. Women and the Great Debates
* 5: Paola Rumore: Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and the German Enlightenment
* 6: Reed Winegar: Elise Reimarus: Reason, Religion, and Enlightenment
* Part IV. Kant and the Kantian Legacy
* 7: Bernhard Ritter: Solace or Counsel for Death: Kant and Maria von
Herbert
* 8: Charlotte Sabourin: Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel on the Status of
Women in the State
* Part V. Women on Self-Formation
* 9: Brigitte Sassen: Dorothea Schlegel and the Challenges of Female
Authorship and Identity
* 10: Anne Pollok: The Role of Writing and Sociability in the
Establishment of a Persona: Henriette Herz, Rahel Levin Varnhagen,
and Bettina von Arnim
* Part VI. Echoes
* 11: Lydia L. Moland: Is She not an Unusual Woman? Say More: Germaine
de Staël and Lydia Maria Child on Progress, Art, and Abolition
* Bibliography