Kristin Gjesdal
My areas of specialization include German Idealism, nineteenth-century Philosophy, phenomenology, and hermeneutics (from Herder and Schleiermacher to Gadamer, Davidson, and beyond). I also have an interest in philosophy and tragedy and have written on the philosophical reception of Sophocles and Shakespeare, as well as on Henrik Ibsen.
I am currently working on two book-length projects: The first, preliminary entitled “Unruly Women: Romantics and Revolutionaries,” explores social and political philosophy from Germaine de Staël to Rosa Luxemburg. The second, “The Imperative of Interpretation: Herder, Schleiermacher, Staël,” studies the development of modern hermeneutics from the point of view of concrete political and cultural challenges.
I studied philosophy at the University of Oslo and have been a visiting scholar at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, and Columbia University, as well as a post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chicago and a Humboldt Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. In the fall of 2023 I was a Distinguished Anderson Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney.
I have published some fifty journal articles and book chapters. My Gadamer and the Legacy of Idealism appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2009/2011, Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment was published in 2017/2019 (also with Cambridge), and The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche in 2021 (with Oxford UP). I have edited The Oxford Handbook to German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (with Michael Forster, OUP, 2015) and Key Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy (Routledge 2015). I am also the editor of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2018) and the Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics (with Michael Forster, forthcoming with CUP). With Dalia Nassar, I have edited Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2019) and The Oxford Handbook of Ninteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition (2024). I am an area editor (nineteenth-century philosophy) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and on the Editorial Board of The European Journal of Philosophy, Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP), Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, and a number of European Journals and book series.
For more information, papers etc., see my webpage:
https://sites.temple.edu/kristingjesdal/
I am currently working on two book-length projects: The first, preliminary entitled “Unruly Women: Romantics and Revolutionaries,” explores social and political philosophy from Germaine de Staël to Rosa Luxemburg. The second, “The Imperative of Interpretation: Herder, Schleiermacher, Staël,” studies the development of modern hermeneutics from the point of view of concrete political and cultural challenges.
I studied philosophy at the University of Oslo and have been a visiting scholar at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, and Columbia University, as well as a post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chicago and a Humboldt Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin. In the fall of 2023 I was a Distinguished Anderson Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney.
I have published some fifty journal articles and book chapters. My Gadamer and the Legacy of Idealism appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2009/2011, Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment was published in 2017/2019 (also with Cambridge), and The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche in 2021 (with Oxford UP). I have edited The Oxford Handbook to German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (with Michael Forster, OUP, 2015) and Key Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy (Routledge 2015). I am also the editor of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2018) and the Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics (with Michael Forster, forthcoming with CUP). With Dalia Nassar, I have edited Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2019) and The Oxford Handbook of Ninteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition (2024). I am an area editor (nineteenth-century philosophy) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and on the Editorial Board of The European Journal of Philosophy, Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (JNNHP), Journal of Transcendental Philosophy, and a number of European Journals and book series.
For more information, papers etc., see my webpage:
https://sites.temple.edu/kristingjesdal/
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Modern Philosophy by Kristin Gjesdal
Norwegian dramatist and Munch’s senior by a generation, one stands out. Large in scope and with a characteristic pallet of roughly hewed gray blue, green and yellow, the sketch is given the title Geniuses. Munch’s sketch shows Ibsen, who had died a few years earlier, in the company of Socrates and Nietzsche. The picture was a working sketch for a painting commissioned by the University. While Munch, in the end, chose a different motif for his commission, it is nonetheless significant that he found it appropriate to portrait the Norwegian dramatist in the company of key European philosophers, indeed the whole span of the European philosophical tradition from its early beginnings to its most controversial spokesman in the late 1800s. In my article, I seek to take seriously Munch’s bold and original positioning of Ibsen in the company of philosophers. Focusing on Hedda Gabler—a play about love lost and lives unlived—I explore the aesthetic-philosophical ramifications of Ibsen’s peculiar position between realism and modernism. This position, I suggest, is also reflected in Munch’s sketches for the set design for Hermann Bahr’s 1906 production of the play.
—has received less attention. Taking as its point of departure Herder’s early work, this chapter proposes that, in his work on literature, Herder formulates an anthropologically sensitive approach to the human sciences that has still not received the attention it deserves.