Unruly women: Rebels, Romantics, and Revolutionaries

Rebels, romantics, and revolutionaries – the women in nineteenthcentury philosophy were ready to cause trouble. In this presentation, Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University) examines the often-overlooked works of women in this period and beyond. She shows how these women, who were at the time excluded from academia, established a philosophical platform of their own, one that challenged the status quo of the dominant academic discourse. As she retells the history of modern philosophy, there is room for the well-known figures of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, but also Germaine de Staël, Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina Brentano von Arnim, Hedwig Dohm, Anna Julia Cooper, Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, and others.

About the Hartnack lecture
On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the Annual Justus Hartnack Lecture was inaugurated in gratitude to his service, and to help preserve the international outlook that Hartnack gave to the Aarhus Philosophy Department from its beginning. The honour of giving the Annual Hartnack Lecture is awarded to an internationally recognized and
distinguished researcher, who has made outstanding contributions in philosophy.

Time: Tuesday, 10 December 13:15-15:00
Venue: Nobelauditoriet, Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4 (1482-105)

Open to all and followed by a reception.

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