The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy

by Susanne Lettow (Editor), Tuija Pulkkinen (Editor)

Overview

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the relation between German Idealism and feminist philosophy has been explored. It demonstrates the significance of German Idealism for feminist philosophy, and simultaneously brings out the relevance of feminist readings and interpretations for a critical understanding of German Idealism.

Key Features:

• Presents original work on the German Idealists and considers their legacy within feminist thought from different philosophical perspectives.

• Incorporates perspectives from queer theory, new materialism and critical philosophy of race, and so explores German Idealism through the subversion and transformation of meanings and conceptual arrangements.

• Challenges the epistemic boundaries of philosophy by engaging the thought of women contemporary with the German Idealists such as Bettina von Arnim and Karoline von Günderrode.

• Places the work of the German Idealists on gender, sexuality, marriage and family within the wider contexts of colonialism and European nation building.

• Considers how several key concepts of German Idealism (such as subject, reason, enlightenment, autonomy and the sublime) have been central targets of feminist theory.

• Includes a Black feminist critique of Kantian universalism.

Fully reflecting the diversity that characterizes feminist thinking today, The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of German idealism, feminist philosophy and feminist theory.

Chapter(s) “The Taxonomy of ‘Race’ and the Anthropology of Sex: Conceptual Determination and Social Presumption in Kant” is/are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031131257
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2023
Series:	Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	474
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susanne Lettow is Senior Researcher at the Margherita-von-Brentano-Center for Gender Studies and teaches philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on classical philosophy from German Idealism to Heidegger, feminist philosophy, gender studies, history and theory of biopolitics, critical social philosophy, environmental humanities.

Tuija Pulkkinen is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research areas include German Idealism, 20th century French philosophy, political theory, the history of concepts, and the politics of philosophy in contemporary feminist theory. She also works on the history of feminist thought and gender studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy; Susanne Lettow, Tuija Pulkkinen.- Part One: Kant.- 2. Black Feminism and Kantian Universalism; Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou.- 3. Kant and Feminist Political Thought, Redux: Complicity, Accountability and Refusal; Dilek Huseyinzadegan, Jordan Pascoe.- 4. Feminist Perspectives on Kant’s Conception of Autonomy: On the Need to Distinguish between Self-determination and Self-legislation; Herta Nagl-Docekal .- 5. Reason and the Transcendental Subject – Kant’s Trace in Feminist Theory; Tuija Pulkkinen.- 6. Rethinking the Sublime in Kant and Shakespeare: Gender, Race and Abjection; Tina Chanter.- 7. Anthropology and the Nature-Culture Distinction; Friederike Kuster.- 8. The Taxonomy of ‘Race’ and the Anthropology of Sex: Conceptual Determination and Social Presumption in Kant; Stella Sandford.- 9. Kant on Sexuality and Marriage; Lina Papadaki.- Part Two: Fichte, Schelling, and Feminist Philosophy.- 10. Woman: the Natural Contradiction. Outlines of Fichte’s Philosophical Gender Theory; Christoph Binkelmann, Marion Heinz.- 11. Life, Matter and Gender. Schelling’s Philosophical Projects from the Philosophy of Nature to the Ages of the World; Susanne Lettow.- Part Three: Hegel and Feminist Philosophy.- 12. Hegel, Schelling and Günderrode on Nature; Alison Stone.- 13. Family, Civil Society and the State; Kimberly Hutchings.- 14. Antigone’s Dissidence: Bringing Hegelian Dialectics and Kantian Sublime to the Limit; Elena Tzelepis.- 15. The Hegelian Master-Slave Dialectic from a Feminist Standpoint; Mara Montanaro, Matthieu Renault.- 16. Ethical Life and the Feminist Critic; Shannon Hoff.- 17. Hegel on Political Economy and Property: Feminist Genealogies and Critiques; Susanne Lettow, Tuija Pulkkinen.- 18. Race, Feminism and Critical Race Theories: What’s Hegel got to do with it?; Jamila Mascat.- Part Four: Feminist Philosophy and Thinkers Connected to German Idealism.- 19. Beyond Complementarity: Nature, Gender, and Plants in German Romanticism and Idealism; Elaine P. Miller.- 20. Staging History: Bettina Brentano von Arnim’s Günderode and the Ideal of Symphilosophy; Dalia Nassar.- 21. Sister, Spouse, and a Subversive Split: The Ambiguous Place of Gender in Schleiermacher’s Philosophy; Heleen Zorgdrager.- 22. Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics and Ethics: Mapping Influences and Congruities with Feminist Philosophers; Christine Battersby.- 23. Conclusion; Susanne Lettow, Tuija Pulkkinen.