The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
An Essential Romantic: On Dorothea Veit-Schlegel
Dorothea Veit-Schlegel shared some commitments with male Romantics, but she critiqued many of their central ideas, especially in relation to gender, education, and personal development.
Anna Ezekiel recovers an essential Romantic thinker and writer
The Extraordinary Marie Magdeleine Davy
Despite their imperfections, mystical texts are worth keeping alive in modernity—particularly in periods of authoritarianisms and violence—because they offer glimpses of other possibilities.
Brenna Moore on the life and work of a great figure of the Ressourcement
Philosophy in Letters
Varnhagen’s letters are increasingly gaining recognition, not just as records of a brilliant mind and the struggles of a Jewish woman of the time, but as works of literature and philosophy.
Anna Ezekiel explores the possibility of an epistolary philosophy in Rahel Varnhagen
The Forgotten Young Hegelian
In light of Brentano-von Arnim’s recognition by the Young Hegelians and her association with the Silesian Weavers’ Uprising, it is remarkable that her political writing is so rarely considered in work on the development of Communism.
Anna Ezekiel examines the contributions of a neglected Left Hegelian
The Woman at the Heart of German Romantic Philosophy
Karoline von Günderrode’s contributions to the history of ideas have been occluded and forgotten. When she wrote, women’s intellectual efforts went unacknowledged, meaning that we may never know the extent of her influence on the people around her.
Anna Ezekial recovers the philosophical insights of Günderrode
Symphony of Life: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Philosophy of History
By observing the patterns in history and finding the hidden unity behind them, we can formulate ideals and new futures based on a better understanding of what humanity is.
Henriikka Hannula develops Dilthey’s philosophy for life.
Discovering the Women at the Heart of Philosophy
The rediscovery of neglected texts has made it increasingly clear that women have always done philosophy, even where this work has been obstructed, lost, forgotten, or misattributed.
Anna Ezekiel on the excision of women from philosophical memory