I support current initiatives to revise the canon of authors and texts of modern philosophy and to give more weight to marginalized figures in the history of philosophy. With my own research, I aim to promote in particular the appreciation of women philosophers in the German tradition of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Two women philosophers particularly caught my attention: Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) and Edith Stein (1891-1942). The topics I discuss in connection with these women are by no means focused only on their theories about womanhood and emancipation, but broadly concern their conceptions of mind, life, and personhood.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
- “Salomé on Life, Religion, Self-Development, and Psychoanalysis: The Spinozistic Background,” In Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought across the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Jason M. Yonover and Kristin Gjesdal.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 296-320.
- “Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861 – 1937),” In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar.Oxford: Oxford University Press , 195–219.
Work in Progress:
- Lou Andreas-Salomé. Elements in Women in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press (under contract, manuscript in preparation).
- “Edith Stein on the Psychic and the Intellectual Life,” In The Life of the Mind in the History of Philosophy, edited by Katharina T. Kraus and Stephen Ogden. Berlin: Springer (forthcoming).