Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany

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.

• List of Contributors Corey W. Dyck: 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

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