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1Between faith and reason : is J.H. Tieftrunk's concept of hope a postulate?In Katerina Mihaylova & Anna Ezekiel (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk has a place among the early Kantians in Halle as both a theologian and a philosophical thinker. After situating Tieftrunk within this intellectual history and determining his theological and philosophical position, this paper provides a chronological account of the concept of hope—which lies at the basis of Kant’s moral philosophy—in Tieftrunk’s writings on philosophy of religion. In particular, the discussion centers on the relationship between the foundation of hope i…Read more
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1Between need and permission : the role of hope in Kant's critical foundation of moral faithIn Katerina Mihaylova & Anna Ezekiel (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.This paper considers the systematic relationship between faith and reason in Kant’s grounding and limiting of moral faith in the Canon of Pure Reason in the Critique of Pure Reason. The first section addresses the interrelationship between Kant’s critique of knowledge and his critique of faith. The second section defines the complex interplay of theoretical and practical issues in Kant’s critical question of what a morally acting agent may hope for regarding the overall outcome of his actions. T…Read more
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6Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)In Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.This chapter considers the philosophical contributions of German writer Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806). Günderrode is an original, though neglected, thinker engaged with German Idealism and Romanticism, whose writings reflect on the same problems that preoccupied other philosophers working in these traditions. Her work participates in debates regarding the question of free will, the nature of the self, the nature of consciousness, what happens to us after we die, the vocation of humankind, …Read more
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9Bettina Brentano-von Arnim: Selections from Die GünderodeIn Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.This chapter presents selections from Bettina Brentano von Arnim’s 1840 Günderode. Günderode is based on a correspondence between Brentano von Arnim and her friend Karoline von Günderrode. In its attempt to convey an intimate and engrossing dialogue between the two friends, Günderode is an exemplary realization of the romantic ideals of sym-philosophy and sociability. A hit in Germany and the United States, Günderode delves into fundamental philosophical questions, including the value of philoso…Read more
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15Gerda Walther: Selections from A Contribution to the Ontology of Social Communities (1922)In Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.In this chapter, Gerda Walther weds her interest in political and social questions with phenomenological approaches and concerns, homing in on the nature of a social community. By posing and responding to a series of questions regarding the nature and structure of a community, Walther distinguishes community from society and argues that community is crucially connected to subjective feeling. In addition, she contends—contra Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl—that the feeling of community both differ…Read more
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17Edith Stein: Selections from The Problem of Empathy (1917)In Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.In this chapter, Edith Stein offers an analysis of empathy with others, which she sees as a fundamental trait of the human being. In her view, empathy is a condition of possibility for sociality and sympathy, rather than the other way around. She grounds empathy in human embodiment, more precisely in the way in which the human being is embodied mind and minded body. Stein’s work on empathy represents a pathbreaking contribution to phenomenology and shows how she makes active use of and goes beyo…Read more
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18Clara Zetkin: Selected Speeches and Writings (1889–1932)In Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.In her essays and speeches, Clara Zetkin argues that the workers’ movement and the women’s movement are co-dependent, and that it is only if male and female workers cooperate that they will be able to overcome economic and social injustices and inequalities. Furthermore, she analyzes different forms of oppression, explains how they relate to and enable one another, and makes appeals for international solidarity with oppressed people everywhere.
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11Rosa Luxemburg: ‘Wage Labor’ (1925)In Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.In this chapter, Rosa Luxemburg examines the basic structure of wage labor. For Luxemburg, wage labor is a condition for the systemic, economical exploitation of one free human being by another. Luxemburg analyzes the capitalists’ thinking about wages, their interest in extending the workday and in lowering the pay, and the conflict of interest between the worker and the owner of capital. She also discusses the role of trade unions in keeping not only the real wages but also the social wages abo…Read more
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16Lou Andreas-Salomé: Selections from The Erotic (1910)In Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.In this chapter, Lou Andreas-Salomé explores the erotic (widely conceived), as it discloses a pre-reflective and foundational aspect of life. The erotic, for Salomé, is prior to the split between mind and body, even between the individual and nature, as a totality. In her view, the erotic is related to sexuality but also to art, creativity, and even religion. The chapter establishes Salomé as a philosopher who carves out an independent intellectual space between Nietzsche and Freud.
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8Hedwig Dohm: Selected Texts (1898–1912)In Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.In this chapter, which includes four independent essays, Hedwig Dohm develops arguments for women’s emancipation, articulates a critique of essentialism, and assesses the claims of anti-feminists, including Friedrich Nietzsche. Although Dohm was influenced by Nietzsche, she was also one of his fiercest critics. Dohm offers some of the most acute observations of the situation of women at various stages of life––from young adulthood to old age. While her conceptualization of the self as creative a…Read more
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9Karoline von Günderrode: Selected NotesIn Dalia Nassar & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition, Oxford University Press. 2021.This chapter presents three unpublished works by Karoline von Günderrode. In them, Günderrode discusses and assesses the moral philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy of nature, while also developing her own ethical account of the human relation to the earth in the essay “Idea of the Earth.” Widely regarded as her most important and radical contribution, “Idea of the Earth” distinguishes Günderrode among her contemporaries and places her in proximity to current …Read more
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7A Persian TaleSymphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. 2020.An English translation of German writer Karoline von Günderrode's poem "A Persian Tale." The entire journal issue is open access and full of other wonderful stuff!
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5Muhammad’s Dream in the DesertSynkrētic: The Journal of Indo-Pacific Philosophy. 2022.An English translation of, and commentary on, German writer Karoline von Günderrode's poem "Muhammad's Dream in the Desert," in Issue 2 of Synkrētic: The Journal of Indo-Pacific Philosophy (reprinted with modifications from an earlier entry on my blog Trail of Crumbs) This journal is open-access and full of run reads.
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9Discovering the Women at the Heart of PhilosophyGenealogies of Modernity. 2020.An article publicising the philosophical contributions of German women writers in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
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6The Woman at the Heart of German Romantic PhilosophyGenealogies of Modernity. 2020.An article publicising the philosophical contributions of German writer Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806)
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8The Forgotten Young HegelianGenealogies of Modernity. 2021.An article publicising the philosophical contributions of German writer Bettina Brentano-von Arnim (1785–1859).
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8Philosophy in LettersGenealogies of Modernity. 2021.An article publicising the philosophical contributions of German writer Rahel Varnhagen (1771–1833)
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6An Essential Romantic: On Dorothea Veit-SchlegelGenealogies of Modernity. 2021.An article publicising the philosophical importance of Early German Romantic writer Dorothea Veit-Schlegel (1764–1839)
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11Karoline von GünderrodeIn Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), The Oxford handbook of nineteenth-century women philosophers in the German tradition, Oxford University Press. 2023.This chapter considers the philosophical contributions of German writer Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806). Günderrode's work participates in debates regarding the question of free will, the nature of the self, the nature of consciousness, what happens to us after we die, the vocation of humankind, the relationship between the self and nature and between these and the Absolute or the divine, the role of gender in social life, ideals for political arrangements, and the pursuit of virtue and beau…Read more
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200Knowledge, faith, and ambiguity : hope in the work of novalis and Karoline Von GünderrodeIn Katerina Mihaylova & Anna Ezekiel (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism, Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.Both Novalis and Günderrode provide grounds for a number of different kinds of hope. The first part of this chapter briefly sketches the most obvious of these: the hope for union with loved ones after death. This section also explains Günderrode’s metaphysics, which entails significant differences from Novalis in the other areas of hope that she identifies. Part two explores “epistemological hope”: the hope for knowledge or experience of that which lies outside the limitations of reason. Part th…Read more
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6Life in Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806)Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers. 2019.An encyclopedia entry on this often-overlooked but central concept in the work of Romantic writer and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode.
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7Death in Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806)Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers. 2019.An encyclopedia entry on Romantic writer and philosopher's fascinating reconceptualisation of the concept of death.
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7Love in Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806)Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers. 2019.An encyclopedia entry on Karoline von Günderrode's rethinking of the Early German Romantic concept of love.
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156Sincerity, Idealization and Writing with the Body: Karoline von Günderrode and Her ReceptionIn Simon Bunke & Katerina Mihaylova (eds.), Aufrichtigkeitseffekte. Signale, soziale Interaktionen und Medien im Zeitalter der Aufklärung, Rombach. 2016.In 1804, when asked by the aspiring writer Clemens Brentano why she had chosen to publish her work, Karoline von Günderrode wrote that she longed “mein Leben in einer bleibenden Form auszusprechen, in einer Gestalt, die würdig sei, zu den Vortreflichsten hinzutreten, sie zu grüssen und Gemeinschaft mit ihnen zu haben.” In light of this kind of statement, it is perhaps not surprising if, despite some exceptions, much of the still relatively scant literature on Günderrode reads her works largely …Read more
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271Women, Women Writers, and Early German RomanticismIn Elizabeth Millan (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.This paper considers how women and gender are conceptualised within early German Romanticism and argues that work by early German Romantic women should be addressed in scholarship on this movement. The chapter addresses feminist critiques of early German Romanticism as exemplified by the work of Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis, concluding that an essentialist view of traditional gender characteristics informs central aspects of these writers’ work, including their view of the relationship between…Read more
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146Narrative and Fragment: The Social Self in Karoline von GünderrodeSymphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism 2. 2020.This paper argues that Karoline von Günderrode’s unique account of the socially constructed self provides a model for satisfying relationships and a stable self on the basis of a fragmented and untransparent subjectivity. Günderrode views experience as a discontinuous series of moments out of which a self can be constructed in two ways, both involving interactions with others. One of these is narrative; the other is a form of immediate experience, including experiencing together with others, tha…Read more
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166ArtIn Tilottama Rajan & Daniel Whistler (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 239-258. 2023.This chapter explores the importance of writing by early nineteenth-century women for post-structuralist accounts of philosophy of art in German Idealism and Romanticism. Work by Romantic writers Karoline von Günderrode and Bettina Brentano-von Arnim is related to post-structuralist analyses of the sublime, the fragment, the work of art, and the artist/genius.
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300Through Consciousness Parted from Dream: Alternative Knowledge Forms in Karoline von GünderrodeIn Gregory S. Moss (ed.), The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 163-180. 2022.Karoline von Günderrode’s reputation as a mystical writer makes her a likely candidate as a proponent of a negative philosophy. However, the historical emphasis on Günderrode’s mystical and lyrical writings reflects gender stereotypes about women’s writing and ignores Günderrode’s strengths as an epic and historical writer. It is therefore important to approach claims about Günderrode’s supposed mysticism carefully. This paper is a preliminary attempt to investigate Günderrode’s claims about kno…Read more
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42Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2023.A history of the development of the concept of hope in German philosophy immediately after Kant.
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