New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy

This book promotes entirely new insights into women’s contributions to the history of philosophy and boasts papers spanning the centuries from Antigone until twentieth century phenomenology, covering fields from logic to mysticism, stretching from Brazil to Early Modern Europe. The book is of interest for all scholars and students of the history of philosophy, but especially for those who are interested in women philosophers and in new narratives in the history of philosophy. The book is representative of the immense scope of academic discussion women were involved in over the centuries as well as their varying styles and methods. It features papers in logic and in mysticism, presents papers on female authors in Antiquity and in the twenty-first century and it includes papers on phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The chapters consider philosophical positions in literature and drama, in letters and in classical philosophical treatises, ensuring this book contributes significantly to research on the individual women authors, who are all to date still understudied figures.

An Introduction to the Volume.- Marie de Gournay’s Use of Skeptical Strategies.- Elizabeth on attributal prediction: Exclusive and non-exclusive dualism.- The happy life, Hedvig Charlotta nordenflycht on enlightment philosophy and earthly happiness.- Conway’s World Soul and Monism.- The inseparability of matter and motion in Margaret cavendish's metaphysics.- Émilie Du Châtelet’s Mathematical Fictionalism.- Apricot bonbons to a free man: Lispector and Spinoza.- Dwelling in improper eternity: Rethinking eschatology based on stein's phenomenology and mysticism.- To feel together, Gerda Walther's concept of unification.- Saving logic from a metaphysical limbo: Susanne Langer on logical assertion.- How judging becomes political - Hannah Arendt's introduction of judgment into the political realm.- Iris Murdoch and the mystical female voice.- The theory of the aesthetic situation of Maria Golaszewski (1926-2015) and feminist interventions in philosophy.- Divine sovereignty, the sexist political order, and Antigone's free action.

Clara Carus is head of the DFG-Research Project "The Relationship of the Theory of Hypotheses to the Principles of Knowledge in Émilie Du Châtelet" at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University. Previously, she was Associate Faculty at the University of Oxford working on a DAAD funded research project on Émilie Du Châtelet’s contribution to the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Early Modern period. From 2020–2022, she was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University. She is interested in systematic questions in the history of philosophy and is specialized on the Early Modern rationalists, especially Émilie Du Châtelet, Leibniz and Wolff. She has strong interests and has published in phenomenology, especially Heidegger, Kant and the integration of women philosophers into our picture of the history of philosophy. She is the founding member of New Voices at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, directed by Ruth Hagengruber.