The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction: German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy

   • Susanne Lettow, Tuija Pulkkinen

   Pages 1-9

3. Kant and Feminist Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Black Feminism and Kantian Universalism

      • Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou

      Pages 13-30

   3. Kant and Feminist Political Thought, Redux: Complicity, Accountability and Refusal

      • Dilek Huseyinzadegan, Jordan Pascoe

      Pages 31-49

   4. Feminist Perspectives on Kant’s Conception of Autonomy: On the Need to Distinguish between Self-Determination and Self-Legislation

      • Herta Nagl-Docekal

      Pages 51-72

   5. Reason and the Transcendental Subject: Kant’s Trace in Feminist Theory

      • Tuija Pulkkinen

      Pages 73-89

   6. Rethinking the Sublime in Kant and Shakespeare: Gender, Race and Abjection

      • Tina Chanter

      Pages 91-112

   7. Anthropology and the Nature-Culture Distinction

      • Friederike Kuster

      Pages 113-129

   8. The Taxonomy of ‘Race’ and the Anthropology of Sex: Conceptual Determination and Social Presumption in Kant

      • Stella Sandford

      Pages 131-150

   9. Kant on Sexuality and Marriage

      • Lina Papadaki

      Pages 151-168

4. Fichte, Schelling, and Feminist Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Woman: The Natural Contradiction—Outlines of Fichte’s Philosophical Gender Theory

      • Christoph Binkelmann, Marion Heinz

      Pages 171-188

   3. Life, Matter and Gender. Schelling’s Philosophical Projects from the Philosophy of Nature to the Ages of the World

      • Susanne Lettow

      Pages 189-209

5. Hegel and Feminist Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Hegel, Schelling and Günderrode on Nature

      • Alison Stone

      Pages 213-230

   3. Family, Civil Society and the State

      • Kimberly Hutchings

      Pages 231-247

   4. Antigone’s Dissidence: Bringing Hegelian Dialectics and the Kantian Sublime to the Limit

      • Elena Tzelepis

      Pages 249-270

   5. The Hegelian Master-Slave Dialectic from a Feminist Standpoint

      • Mara Montanaro, Matthieu Renault

      Pages 271-291

   6. Ethical Life and the Feminist Critic

      • Shannon Hoff

      Pages 293-308

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.

• German Idealism
• Feminism
• Kant
• Hegel
• Fichte
• Schelling

• Institute for Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Susanne Lettow

• Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Tuija Pulkkinen

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.