Kristin Gjesdal
@kristingjesdal.bsky.social
Philosopher at Temple University | Modern European Philosophy | Women in the History of Philosophy
https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/gjesdal-kristin
https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/gjesdal-kristin
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
#philsky #booksky #education #womenshistory
July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
#philsky #booksky #education #womenshistory
My Rebellinnen der Philosophie is out in two weeks’ time! Pre-order available: bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sach...
#philsky #booksky #author
#philsky #booksky #author
June 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My Rebellinnen der Philosophie is out in two weeks’ time! Pre-order available: bastei-luebbe.de/Buecher/Sach...
#philsky #booksky #author
#philsky #booksky #author
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
#philsky #booksky #education
June 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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
#philsky #booksky #education
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
#philsky #art
June 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
#philsky #art
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
#philsky #books #norway
May 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
#philsky #books #norway
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 -
April 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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 -
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
#books #performance
April 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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
#books #performance
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
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#philsky #books
March 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
#philsky #books
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
#19C #booksky
March 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
#19C #booksky
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
#philsky #booksky
March 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
#philsky #booksky
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
learn, written with an abundance of energy – a fitting tribute to the Oxford Quartet.
#booksky #philsky
March 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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
learn, written with an abundance of energy – a fitting tribute to the Oxford Quartet.
#booksky #philsky
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
#booksky
March 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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
#booksky
Picking up @lydiamoland.bsky.social's challenge for a philosophical #womenshistorymonth with one of my personal favorites. @philosofemme.bsky.social 's "Becoming Beauvoir" is a true gem: biographically thorough, philosophically deep, and eminently well written!
#booksky #philsky
#booksky #philsky
March 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Picking up @lydiamoland.bsky.social's challenge for a philosophical #womenshistorymonth with one of my personal favorites. @philosofemme.bsky.social 's "Becoming Beauvoir" is a true gem: biographically thorough, philosophically deep, and eminently well written!
#booksky #philsky
#booksky #philsky
Worried about the state of Constitutional Democracy? My colleagues Lee-Ann Chae and @brianhutler.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference next weekend (March 28-30).
More info at: sites.temple.edu/crisis/
#philsky #democracy
More info at: sites.temple.edu/crisis/
#philsky #democracy
March 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Worried about the state of Constitutional Democracy? My colleagues Lee-Ann Chae and @brianhutler.bsky.social have put together an amazing conference next weekend (March 28-30).
More info at: sites.temple.edu/crisis/
#philsky #democracy
More info at: sites.temple.edu/crisis/
#philsky #democracy
“Only through inner connectedness does a social formation change into a community.” That’s Gerda Walther (born: March 18, 1897). «Toward an Ontology of Social Communities» will be out with DeGruyter in Sept. For now, do celebrate her b-day with a chapter from Women Philosophers!
#philsky #booksky
#philsky #booksky
March 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
THANK YOU to everyone who attended the twin-volume Oxford Handbook celebration on Thursday! Want to learn more about #19C women philosophers? The Handbooks are discounted for #womenshistorymonth.
@lydiamoland.bsky.social
@dalianassar.bsky.social
@ennhistphil.bsky.social
#philsky
@lydiamoland.bsky.social
@dalianassar.bsky.social
@ennhistphil.bsky.social
#philsky
March 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
THANK YOU to everyone who attended the twin-volume Oxford Handbook celebration on Thursday! Want to learn more about #19C women philosophers? The Handbooks are discounted for #womenshistorymonth.
@lydiamoland.bsky.social
@dalianassar.bsky.social
@ennhistphil.bsky.social
#philsky
@lydiamoland.bsky.social
@dalianassar.bsky.social
@ennhistphil.bsky.social
#philsky
happy International Women’s Day! @dalianassar.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on Clara Zetkin & IWD a while back; it is no less relevant today! blog.oup.com/2022/03/inte... #philsky #iwd #women
March 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
happy International Women’s Day! @dalianassar.bsky.social and I wrote this piece on Clara Zetkin & IWD a while back; it is no less relevant today! blog.oup.com/2022/03/inte... #philsky #iwd #women
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” That’s the #19C thinker Rosa Luxemburg, whose birthday is March 5. A bold anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist & anti-fascist avant la lettre. Her work is worth revisiting – always.
#philsky #books
#philsky #books
March 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
“People who dislike clever women are in a tragic mood.” Hedwig Conrad-Martius (born Feb 27, 1888) won the Göttingen phenomenology prize in 1912. Do celebrate her today! Much more fun to teach phenomenology with Stein, Walther, and C-M on the syllabus.
#Philsky #phenomenology
#Philsky #phenomenology
February 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
“People who dislike clever women are in a tragic mood.” Hedwig Conrad-Martius (born Feb 27, 1888) won the Göttingen phenomenology prize in 1912. Do celebrate her today! Much more fun to teach phenomenology with Stein, Walther, and C-M on the syllabus.
#Philsky #phenomenology
#Philsky #phenomenology
Happy to announce that we just added a new (and awesome) #19C entry to the Stanford Encyclopedia of #philosophy: Patrick Frierson on Maria Montessori. Do check it out!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/mont...
#education #womeninphilosophy
plato.stanford.edu/entries/mont...
#education #womeninphilosophy
February 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Happy to announce that we just added a new (and awesome) #19C entry to the Stanford Encyclopedia of #philosophy: Patrick Frierson on Maria Montessori. Do check it out!
plato.stanford.edu/entries/mont...
#education #womeninphilosophy
plato.stanford.edu/entries/mont...
#education #womeninphilosophy
“Practically all the great European philosophers have been bachelors…” Such is the opening of Mary Midgley’s “Rings & Books.” Am I the only one to have missed this long-lost gem of an essay (aka script for a never-aired BBC talk) published online by Raven Magazine?
#philsk #womeninphilosophy
#philsk #womeninphilosophy
February 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Practically all the great European philosophers have been bachelors…” Such is the opening of Mary Midgley’s “Rings & Books.” Am I the only one to have missed this long-lost gem of an essay (aka script for a never-aired BBC talk) published online by Raven Magazine?
#philsk #womeninphilosophy
#philsk #womeninphilosophy
Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –
#books #philsky
#books #philsky
February 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –
#books #philsky
#books #philsky
Feb. 12 is Lou Salomé’s birthday! Metaphysical in her leanings, vitalism-curious, a pioneer in psychoanalysis, and ready to talk about sex & gender in thought-provoking ways. Sometimes annoying; never boring. The Erotic is a philosophical classic. Excerpts in Women Philosophers.
#philsky #books
#philsky #books
February 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM