Lydia Maria Child on German philosophy and American slavery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21597684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Moland (Colby College), Lydia L Moland (Colby College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-274 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal for the History of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-8788 • E-ISSN: 1469-3526 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09608788.2020.1763911 |
| OpenAlex | W3035243075 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
As editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard in the early 1840s, Lydia Maria Child was responsible for keeping the abolitionist movement in the United States informed of relevant news. She also used her editorial position to philosophize. Her column entitled “Letters from New York” is particularly philosophical, including considerations of infinity, free will, time, nature, art, and history. She especially turned to German philosophers and intellectuals such as Kant, Schiller, Bettina von Arnim, Karoline von Günderrode, Jean Paul, Herder, and Hegel in an attempt to guide her readers to a rejection of slavery for the right philosophical reasons. I consider the influence of German philosophy on three particular themes in her writings: a Romantic-Spinozistic view of humans and nature; a Kantian conception of conscience; and a Hegelian description of the philosophy of history
Art · Art history · Conscience · Epistemology · German · German philosophy · Hegelianism · Literature · Philosophical theory · Romance · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · Moravian Church and William Blake · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |