Kristin Gjesdal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Gjesdal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gjesdal |
| SIGNATURE | GJESDAL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A disgrace to humanity
Written in the 1780s, when slavery was a hotly debated issue in France, Germaine de Staël’s Mirza, or Letter from a Traveler addresses topics such as enslavement, free trade, freedom, and the relationship between Europe and Africa. When the author, nine years later, decided to publish the novella, it was accompanied by Essay on Fictions, a veritable manifesto for an engaged, philosophical literature. However, in the scholarship, Mirza is typicall…
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
The long nineteenth century—from Romanticism, to socialism, and phenomenology—was a productive period for women philosophers. This Handbook, the first of its kind, is dedicated to their works. It explores women’s pathbreaking contributions to philosophy: the ways in which they shaped and transformed philosophical movements, the new concepts they established and schools they helped form, and the philosophical problems they uncovered and sought to …
Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
Germaine de Staël on Passions, Politics, and Fanaticism
Over a period of two decades, Germaine de Staël tackles the philosophical dimensions of political fanaticism and our responses to it. Yet, discussions of enlightenment approaches to fanaticism typically ignore her contribution and focus, instead, on Voltaire and other eighteenth-century figures. Staël’s discussion of fanaticism has also been overlooked within scholarship on her work. This chapter seeks to highlight Staël’s contribution to the phi…
The Drama of History
The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche offers a new interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s drama and brings to light new aspects of G. W. F. Hegel’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s works, especially their theorizing of drama and theater. This study emphasizes the centrality of philosophy of theater in nineteenth-century philosophy and demonstrates how drama functions as an artform that offers insight into human historicity and the conditions of modern…
Drama of History
A Nietzsche for Our Times? Andrew Huddleston on Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
This article, a version of which was presented in January 2020 to the North American Nietzsche Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, is a commentary on Andrew Huddleston's 2019 monograph, Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture. While praising Huddleston's balancing of systematic and critical scholarship, the article also takes up the wider framework in which Nietzsche's contribution should be u…
Herder's Hermeneutics
The Burden of Antiquity
The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Metaphysics and Critique of Metaphysics
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy
Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
No period of history has been richer in philosophical discoveries than Germany during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And while it was the eighteenth century that saw Germany attain maturity in the discipline (above all in the works of Immanuel Kant), it was arguably the nineteenth century that bore the greatest philosophical fruits. This Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of nineteenth-century Germany that …
Tragedy and Tradition
Hermeneutics and philology
Against the Myth of Aesthetic Presence
Reading Shakespeare - reading modernity
From the mid 1700s onwards, the German literati and theatre community were engaged in a heated and wide-ranging debate over William Shakespeare’s drama. At stake were not only questions about the theatrical implications and impact of Elizabethan drama, but also a more systematic inquiry into the nature of art. In this context, one voice stands out: that of Johann Gottfried Herder. Herd er’s 1772 essay “Shakespear” (sic) sums up the contemporary d…
Reading Shakespeare - reading modernity
From the mid 1700s onwards, the German literati and theatre community were engaged in a heated and wide-ranging debate over William Shakespeare’s drama. At stake were not only questions about the theatrical implications and impact of Elizabethan drama, but also a more systematic inquiry into the nature of art. In this context, one voice stands out: that of Johann Gottfried Herder. Herd er’s 1772 essay “Shakespear” (sic) sums up the contemporary d…
Reading Shakespeare - reading modernity
From the mid 1700s onwards, the German literati and theatre community were engaged in a heated and wide-ranging debate over William Shakespeare’s drama. At stake were not only questions about the theatrical implications and impact of Elizabethan drama, but also a more systematic inquiry into the nature of art. In this context, one voice stands out: that of Johann Gottfried Herder. Herd er’s 1772 essay “Shakespear” (sic) sums up the contemporary d…
Against the Myth of Aesthetic Presence
Hermeneutics and philology
Tragedy and Tradition
The Burden of Antiquity
The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Metaphysics and Critique of Metaphysics
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy
Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
No period of history has been richer in philosophical discoveries than Germany during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And while it was the eighteenth century that saw Germany attain maturity in the discipline (above all in the works of Immanuel Kant), it was arguably the nineteenth century that bore the greatest philosophical fruits. This Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of nineteenth-century Germany that …
Herder's Hermeneutics
A Nietzsche for Our Times? Andrew Huddleston on Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
This article, a version of which was presented in January 2020 to the North American Nietzsche Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, is a commentary on Andrew Huddleston's 2019 monograph, Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture. While praising Huddleston's balancing of systematic and critical scholarship, the article also takes up the wider framework in which Nietzsche's contribution should be u…
The Drama of History
The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche offers a new interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s drama and brings to light new aspects of G. W. F. Hegel’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s works, especially their theorizing of drama and theater. This study emphasizes the centrality of philosophy of theater in nineteenth-century philosophy and demonstrates how drama functions as an artform that offers insight into human historicity and the conditions of modern…
Drama of History
Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
Germaine de Staël on Passions, Politics, and Fanaticism
Over a period of two decades, Germaine de Staël tackles the philosophical dimensions of political fanaticism and our responses to it. Yet, discussions of enlightenment approaches to fanaticism typically ignore her contribution and focus, instead, on Voltaire and other eighteenth-century figures. Staël’s discussion of fanaticism has also been overlooked within scholarship on her work. This chapter seeks to highlight Staël’s contribution to the phi…
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition
The long nineteenth century—from Romanticism, to socialism, and phenomenology—was a productive period for women philosophers. This Handbook, the first of its kind, is dedicated to their works. It explores women’s pathbreaking contributions to philosophy: the ways in which they shaped and transformed philosophical movements, the new concepts they established and schools they helped form, and the philosophical problems they uncovered and sought to …
A disgrace to humanity
Written in the 1780s, when slavery was a hotly debated issue in France, Germaine de Staël’s Mirza, or Letter from a Traveler addresses topics such as enslavement, free trade, freedom, and the relationship between Europe and Africa. When the author, nine years later, decided to publish the novella, it was accompanied by Essay on Fictions, a veritable manifesto for an engaged, philosophical literature. However, in the scholarship, Mirza is typicall…
Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · German (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)