Kristin Gjesdal
Philosopher at Temple University | Modern European Philosophy | Women in the History of Philosophy
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- Reposted by Kristin Gjesdal*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)
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- More women philosophers are always welcome: Hilda Oakeley seems particularly erudite & her works include History and Progress (1923); Greek Ethical Thought (1925); A Study in the Philosophy of Personality (1928) and History and the Self (1934). Can't wait to read more! #19C #philsky #womenshistory
- Very happy to see that my book is starting to get a life in Germany! #womenshistory #19C #philsky #books
- Finally! Rebellinnen der Philosophie is here in a gorgeous translation by Sarah Schmitt. Thanks to the editors at @eichbornverlag.bsky.social for the work they put into this. Next up: the English transl., Unruly Women, @uchicagopress.bsky.social. #philsky #booksky #education #womenshistory
- Reposted by Kristin GjesdalWeighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
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- My Rebellinnen der Philosophie is out in two weeks’ time! Pre-order available: bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sach... #philsky #booksky #author
- How to think about children and education? About learning and learning well? Maria Montessori’s work should not be overlooked. She was a formidable philosopher. Patrick Frierson’s new book on her philosophy of education does her full justice. Summer reading, anyone? #philsky #booksky #education
- Very excited to visit Helsinki & looking forward to lots of high-quality talks on art and aesthetics at the Nordic Society of Aesthetics’ annual conference this weekend. www.nsae.fi/conferences/ #philsky #art
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- The summer conference schedule is off with a bang! Looking so much forward to “The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis” in Bergen this week. @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social and @franz.knappik.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference program - #philsky #books #norway
- George Eliot was an extraordinary gifted novelist. She was also a philosophical thinker. This week, Clare Carlisle’s much-anticipated Stanford Encyclopedia-entry on George Eliot’s philosophy is up online. Do check it out – #books #philsky #art #history
- #19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today - @lucyrandall802.bsky.social #philsky #booksky #women #feminism
- Looking so much forward to this event! Thanks to @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social and @franzknappik.bsky.social for organizing - #philsky #booksky
- A political superpower à la England and Russia! Germaine de Staël was born 04/22/1766. Her philosophy? Humboldt adored her moral psychology; Goethe and Schiller praised her aesthetics. New translations of her philosophy are much overdue. Here, too, she is a superpower -
- Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” directed by Jack O’Brian, at the LCT, NYC, is definitely worthwhile. And this comes from somebody who has seen what probably amounts to an unhealthy number of Ibsen stagings, esp. while researching my Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche-book. #books #performance
- Final panel of my #womenshistorymonth tetraptych. A book @lydiamoland.bsky.social has not mentioned: her own! «Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life» is truly inspiring & relevant. We need more Lydias – of the #19C and of the #21C kind. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #philsky #books
- For #womenshistorymonth #philsky edition: Bettina Br. von Arnim had won fame with her Goethe-book. How best to use it? A dialogue with her friend Karoline. That’s Günderrode, 1840. On a woman philosopher; by a woman philosopher. Sample Women Philosophers w. @oupphilosophy.bsky.social #19C #booksky
- Assuming a book about a woman philosopher – for @lydiamoland.bsky.social’s #womenshistorymonth-challenge - can be written by the philosopher herself. Mary Midgley’s memoir is a favorite. 230 pages packed with wisdom. Her view of philosophy? Not a luxury but a necessity. #philsky #booksky
- In the spirit of @lydiamoland.bsky.social’s philosophical #womenshistorymonth -challenge: Benjamin Lipscomb’s “The Women are Up to Something” is quite a read: so much to learn, written with an abundance of energy – a fitting tribute to the Oxford Quartet. #booksky #philsky
- Was Dag Solstad obsessed with a desolate universe? Possibly. His characters are alienated, world-weary, and struggle to fit into the modern world. He was a giant in Norwegian literature. Do read the obituary in today’s NYT. His work deserves more Anglophone readers and translations - #booksky
- Happy to see this volume that @dalianassar.bsky.social and I edited be incl. by @lydiamoland.bsky.social. The volume, published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social, covers 9 #19thC women thinkers & the arch from the French Revolution to WWII. Translations by @annaezekiel.bsky.social. #philsky #booksky
- Picking up @lydiamoland.bsky.social's challenge for a philosophical #womenshistorymonth with one of my personal favorites. @philosofemme.bsky.social 's "Becoming Beauvoir" is a true gem: biographically thorough, philosophically deep, and eminently well written! #booksky #philsky
- Thanks to @lydiamoland.bsky.social for posting on recent (and forthcoming) books on women philosophers!
- Worried about the state of Constitutional Democracy? My colleagues Lee-Ann Chae and @brianhutler.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference next weekend (March 28-30). More info at: sites.temple.edu/crisis/ #philsky #democracy
- “Only through inner connectedness does a social formation change into a community.” That’s Gerda Walther (born: March 18, 1897). «Toward an Ontology of Social Communities» will be out with DeGruyter in Sept. For now, do celebrate her b-day with a chapter from Women Philosophers! #philsky #booksky
- THANK YOU to everyone who attended the twin-volume Oxford Handbook celebration on Thursday! Want to learn more about #19C women philosophers? The Handbooks are discounted for #womenshistorymonth. @lydiamoland.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social @ennhistphil.bsky.social #philsky
- happy International Women’s Day! @dalianassar.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on Clara Zetkin & IWD a while back; it is no less relevant today! blog.oup.com/2022/03/inte... #philsky #iwd #women
- “The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” That’s the #19C thinker Rosa Luxemburg, whose birthday is March 5. A bold anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist & anti-fascist avant la lettre. Her work is worth revisiting – always. #philsky #books
- So much looking forward to our celebration! Join us if you can : ) #philsky #19C #books #womeninphilosophy
- “People who dislike clever women are in a tragic mood.” Hedwig Conrad-Martius (born Feb 27, 1888) won the Göttingen phenomenology prize in 1912. Do celebrate her today! Much more fun to teach phenomenology with Stein, Walther, and C-M on the syllabus. #Philsky #phenomenology
- Happy to announce that we just added a new (and awesome) #19C entry to the Stanford Encyclopedia of #philosophy: Patrick Frierson on Maria Montessori. Do check it out! plato.stanford.edu/entries/mont... #education #womeninphilosophy
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- “Practically all the great European philosophers have been bachelors…” Such is the opening of Mary Midgley’s “Rings & Books.” Am I the only one to have missed this long-lost gem of an essay (aka script for a never-aired BBC talk) published online by Raven Magazine? #philsk #womeninphilosophy
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- Feb. 12 is Lou Salomé’s birthday! Metaphysical in her leanings, vitalism-curious, a pioneer in psychoanalysis, and ready to talk about sex & gender in thought-provoking ways. Sometimes annoying; never boring. The Erotic is a philosophical classic. Excerpts in Women Philosophers. #philsky #books
- Lydia Moland on Lydia Maria Child & A Radical American Life is highly recommended! Happy Birthday LMC - #womenshistory #philsky
- “Only the wild, the great, and the brilliant appeals to me!” Karoline von Günderrode made no compromises. Feb. 11 is her birthday! Check out @annaezekiel.bsky.social’s wonderful translations & her Oxford Handbook chapter. Sending grateful thoughts - #women #historyofphilosophy #philsky
- «In the name of our sex I challenge men to justify the right they have presumed for themselves to hold back an entire half of the human race.» That’s Amalia Holst in 1802. Her birthday – Feb. 10 – is worth celebrating. Andrew Cooper’s Aeon-essay & Cambr. Elements are highly recommended – #philsky
- Looking forward to using this episode — maybe the entire #WiseWomen series — in my Unruly Women class! #womeninphilosophy #philsky #womenshistory
- Art & politics – could the timing possibly have been better? Great lineup for the #aesthetics conference at The New School next week! #philsky #art #literature
- Cringeworthy endorsements for Beauvoir: “…a rare woman—articulate, discerning, and uncommonly courageous…One of the few great women of her time.” First Eng. translation of The Second Sex erased 78 women’s names. No wonder Beauvoir was left a lone shining star… #Philsky #Books
- Looking much forward to listening to this conversation! #phenomenology #WomenInPhilosophy
- Looking much forward to discussing my recent work on Germaine de Staël at the Johns Hopkins History of Philosophy work-in-progress series this Friday at 2pm!
