The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy

Susanne Lettow is Senior Researcher at the Margherita-von-Brentano-Center for Gender Studies and teaches philosophy at Freie Universitat 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.

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.