Abstract
This chapter introduces four women philosophers and explore their relation to the neo-Kantian movement: Hedwig Bender and Grete Hermann in Germany, Camille Bos in France, and Hilda Oakeley in the UK. The chapter identifies four key concerns of the neo-Kantian “orthodoxy” of the Baden and Marburg schools—the philosophy-science relation, antipsychologism, scientific change, and historical method. The chapter analyzes how, in taking up and developing Kantian concepts, Bender, Hermann, Bos, and Oakeley contribute to these discussions. Reflecting on the profound differences in their philosophical orientations, the chapter highlights the centrifugal tendencies that had been at work in the reception of Kant throughout the nineteenth century, and how these were amplified at the turn to the twentieth, when neo-Kantian philosophies were dispersed in different intellectual, institutional, and national contexts.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition |
Editors | Kristin Gjesdal, Dalia Nassar |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 20 |
Pages | 447–470 |
Number of pages | 24 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190066260 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780190066239 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 21 Mar 2024 |
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Keywords
- Camille Bos
- Grete Hermann
- Hedwig Bender
- Hilda Oakeley
- Neo-Kantianism