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Kristin Gjesdal

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Philosopher at Temple University | Modern European Philosophy | Women in the History of Philosophy https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/gjesdal-kristin

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Nov 29

Hello Bluesky! I’ll post intermittently on modern European philosophy, women in philosophy, aesthetics, and social thought. My most recent book Opprørerne (Unruly Women) was out in Norwegian this spring. German and Engl. trans. to come!
#HistoryofPhilosophy #WomenInPhilosophy #Philosophy

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Louis Doulas @louisdoulas.bsky.social · 8d

*Officially* out today: Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy. I’m grateful to my co-editor, Annalisa Coliva, and all our excellent contributors! Link in bio. (Find the volume’s introduction on my website 😈.)

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templephilosophy.bsky.social @templephilosophy.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Associate Professor Eugene Chislenko for winning the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy! You can read more about his accomplishment here:
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2025 winner of the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy

The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) is pleased to announce publicly the 2025 winner of the Andrew Light Award for Public Philosophy. This year’s Andrew Lig…

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · 7d

More women philosophers are always welcome: Hilda Oakeley seems particularly erudite & her works include History and Progress (1923); Greek Ethical Thought (1925); A Study in the Philosophy of Personality (1928) and History and the Self (1934). Can't wait to read more!

#19C #philsky #womenshistory

Ellie Robson @philosophellie.bsky.social · 7d

Hilda Oakeley was the (acting) Head of Department at King's College from 1925-30 and Head of Department in 1931. @kingsphilosophy.bsky.social

Read more about her in this 2015 blog written by Emily Thomas:
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Introducing British idealist Hilda Oakeley – a guest post by Emily Thomas

It is with great pleasure that I introduce our first guest post. Its author, Emily Thomas, is a postdoc at the University of Groningen where she currently holds a Netherlands Research Council (NWO)…

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Aug 21

Very happy to see that my book is starting to get a life in Germany!
#womenshistory #19C #philsky #books

𝕶𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖐 Redux @kritikredux.bsky.social · Aug 18

Rebellinnen der Philosophie by @kristingjesdal.bsky.social , translated from Norwegian

Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Jul 22

Finally! Rebellinnen der Philosophie is here in a gorgeous translation by Sarah Schmitt. Thanks to the editors at ‪@eichbornverlag.bsky.social‬ for the work they put into this. Next up: the English transl., Unruly Women, @uchicagopress.bsky.social.

#philsky #booksky #education #womenshistory

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!

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Christopher Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · Jul 8

Philosophy Friends & Fellow Colleagues: I have very exciting news for #TheYoungIdealist Series! This Summer will feature special guests Dr. Catherine Grimm, Dr. Matthew McManus, Dr. Sebastian Luft, @kristingjesdal.bsky.social Dr. Kristin Gjesdal, Dr. Fernando Wirtz, Dr. Daniel Tutt, & Ray Brassier.

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Jun 11

My Rebellinnen der Philosophie is out in two weeks’ time! Pre-order available: bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sach...

#philsky #booksky #author

Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Jun 6

How to think about children and education? About learning and learning well? Maria Montessori’s work should not be overlooked. She was a formidable philosopher. Patrick Frierson’s new book on her philosophy of education does her full justice. Summer reading, anyone?

#philsky #booksky #education

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Jun 4

Very excited to visit Helsinki & looking forward to lots of high-quality talks on art and aesthetics at the Nordic Society of Aesthetics’ annual conference this weekend. www.nsae.fi/conferences/

#philsky #art

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Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · May 23

Happy Birthday, Margaret #Fuller! A good year for her--wonderful treatment of her importance in both these new publications. More this year in our OUP volume on American women #philosophers. #philsky #womeninphilosophy #americanphilosophy #transcendentalism

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · May 20

The summer conference schedule is off with a bang! Looking so much forward to “The Philosophy of Angela Y. Davis” in Bergen this week. @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social and @franz.knappik.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference program -

#philsky #books #norway

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · May 2

George Eliot was an extraordinary gifted novelist. She was also a philosophical thinker. This week, Clare Carlisle’s much-anticipated Stanford Encyclopedia-entry on George Eliot’s philosophy is up online. Do check it out –

#books #philsky #art #history

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Apr 28

#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today -

@lucyrandall802.bsky.social
#philsky #booksky #women #feminism

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Apr 22

Looking so much forward to this event! Thanks to ‪@schlawinerkreis.bsky.social and @franzknappik.bsky.social for organizing -

#philsky #booksky

Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · Apr 22

On May 22–23, @franzknappik.bsky.social & I are hosting a conference on The Philosophy of Angela Davis.

Davis has shaped debates on freedom, abolition, race, class & history — yet remains overlooked in both mainstream political philosophy & critical theory. This conference seeks to change that.

The philosophy of Angela Y. Davis

May 22nd & 23rd, 2025 University of Bergen (Norway), Department of Philosophy, Sydnesplassen 12/13, 1st floor seminar room& Zoom (click here to register) Angela Y. Davis, born 1944. Picture…

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Apr 22

What? That's such a nice coincidence. Staël was reading Kant from early on - though is a bit of an unruly Kantian!

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Apr 22

A political superpower à la England and Russia! Germaine de Staël was born 04/22/1766. Her philosophy? Humboldt adored her moral psychology; Goethe and Schiller praised her aesthetics. New translations of her philosophy are much overdue. Here, too, she is a superpower -

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Apr 2

Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” directed by Jack O’Brian, at the LCT, NYC, is definitely worthwhile. And this comes from somebody who has seen what probably amounts to an unhealthy number of Ibsen stagings, esp. while researching my Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche-book.

#books #performance

Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 31

Final panel of my #womenshistorymonth tetraptych. A book @lydiamoland.bsky.social has not mentioned: her own! «Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life» is truly inspiring & relevant. We need more Lydias – of the #19C and of the #21C kind.

@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#philsky #books

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 30

For #womenshistorymonth #philsky edition: Bettina Br. von Arnim had won fame with her Goethe-book. How best to use it? A dialogue with her friend Karoline. That’s Günderrode, 1840. On a woman philosopher; by a woman philosopher. Sample Women Philosophers w. @oupphilosophy.bsky.social

#19C #booksky

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 29

So much work; so much fun. It is exciting that our massive volume is finally here! A big thank you to the 30+ contributors who wrote in-depth chapters on women philosophers -- their ideas and their contributions to key philosophical movements from romanticism to phenomenology.

#booksky #philsky

Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social · Mar 29

Celebrating the last week of #womenshistorymonth with recent books on women philosophers # 14! And this one is BIG! 600+ pages of pathbreaking scholarship proving once and for all that including women IS just better scholarship!
#philsky #19c @kristingjesdal.bsky.social @dalianassar.bsky.social

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 29

You've got something to look forward to, then!

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 29

Assuming a book about a woman philosopher – for @lydiamoland.bsky.social’s #womenshistorymonth-challenge - can be written by the philosopher herself. Mary Midgley’s memoir is a favorite. 230 pages packed with wisdom. Her view of philosophy? Not a luxury but a necessity.

#philsky #booksky

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Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 28

In the spirit of @lydiamoland.bsky.social’s philosophical #womenshistorymonth -challenge: Benjamin Lipscomb’s “The Women are Up to Something” is quite a read: so much to
learn, written with an abundance of energy – a fitting tribute to the Oxford Quartet.

#booksky #philsky

Kristin Gjesdal @kristingjesdal.bsky.social · Mar 27

Was Dag Solstad obsessed with a desolate universe? Possibly. His characters are alienated, world-weary, and struggle to fit into the modern world. He was a giant in Norwegian literature. Do read the obituary in today’s NYT. His work deserves more Anglophone readers and translations -

#booksky

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