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Intro
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations
Brentano von Arnim
Fichte
Günderrode
Hegel
Kant
Leibniz
Rousseau
Schelling
Schlegel
Schleiermacher
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy
1 Feminist Research on Gender Relations in German Idealism
2 Legacies of German Idealism in Feminist Philosophy
3 Structure of the Book
Part I: Kant and Feminist Philosophy
Chapter 2: Black Feminism and Kantian Universalism
1 What Is Universalism?
2 "Nasty Women": Kant's Sexism
3 Approaches to Kant's Sexism and Racism
4 In the Lurch: Black Feminism and Kant Scholarship
5 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Kant and Feminist Political Thought, Redux: Complicity, Accountability and Refusal
1 Locating the Intersectional Exclusions in Kant: The Problem of Public Reason
2 Unpacking Kant's "As If": On the Material Conditions of Independence
3 Constructive Complicity: Re-Orienting Kantian Feminisms
4 Intersectional Interruptions: Accountability and Refusing to Work Our Way "Up"
Chapter 4: Feminist Perspectives on Kant's Conception of Autonomy: On the Need to Distinguish between Self-Determination and Self-Legislation
1 Feminist Responses to Kantian Conceptions of Autonomy
1.1 Objections Addressing Rationalism, Individualism and Social Atomism
1.2 Relational Autonomy
1.3 Feminist Post-Humanism
2 One Term, Six Meanings
3 Why Kant's Conception of Moral Autonomy Proves Helpful for Feminist Research
3.1 The Obligation to Further the Happiness of Others
3.2 The Need for an Ethical Community
Chapter 5: Reason and the Transcendental Subject: Kant's Trace in Feminist Theory
1 Introduction: Kant's Trace in Feminist Theory
2 Kant: Reason and the Transcendental
2.1 The Terms: 'Subject' and 'Reason'
3 The Subject and Reason in Feminist Theory
3.1 Reason and Subject as Male or Philosophy as a Male Dominated Tradition
3.2 The Possibility of the Subject as Female
3.3 No Subject at All?
3.4 Humanity and Human as the Subject: Agency
4 Conclusion
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Sublime in Kant and Shakespeare: Gender, Race and Abjection
1 Situating Kant's Aesthetics Within His Philosophy as a Whole
2 Aesthetic Judgment as Reflective, Indeterminate and Disinterested
3 The Sublime
4 Gender's Preservation of Race in Relation to Aesthetic Judgments
5 Within the Bounds of Modernism: Rose's Kristevan, Abject, Hamlet
6 Beyond Kristeva's Meaning: Wynter on The Tempest
7 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7: Anthropology and the Nature-Culture Distinction
1 Anthropology in the Eighteenth Century
2 Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology
3 Kant's Anthropology of Gender
4 The Moral Gender
5 Questions of Origin
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations
Brentano von Arnim
Fichte
Günderrode
Hegel
Kant
Leibniz
Rousseau
Schelling
Schlegel
Schleiermacher
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy
1 Feminist Research on Gender Relations in German Idealism
2 Legacies of German Idealism in Feminist Philosophy
3 Structure of the Book
Part I: Kant and Feminist Philosophy
Chapter 2: Black Feminism and Kantian Universalism
1 What Is Universalism?
2 "Nasty Women": Kant's Sexism
3 Approaches to Kant's Sexism and Racism
4 In the Lurch: Black Feminism and Kant Scholarship
5 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Kant and Feminist Political Thought, Redux: Complicity, Accountability and Refusal
1 Locating the Intersectional Exclusions in Kant: The Problem of Public Reason
2 Unpacking Kant's "As If": On the Material Conditions of Independence
3 Constructive Complicity: Re-Orienting Kantian Feminisms
4 Intersectional Interruptions: Accountability and Refusing to Work Our Way "Up"
Chapter 4: Feminist Perspectives on Kant's Conception of Autonomy: On the Need to Distinguish between Self-Determination and Self-Legislation
1 Feminist Responses to Kantian Conceptions of Autonomy
1.1 Objections Addressing Rationalism, Individualism and Social Atomism
1.2 Relational Autonomy
1.3 Feminist Post-Humanism
2 One Term, Six Meanings
3 Why Kant's Conception of Moral Autonomy Proves Helpful for Feminist Research
3.1 The Obligation to Further the Happiness of Others
3.2 The Need for an Ethical Community
Chapter 5: Reason and the Transcendental Subject: Kant's Trace in Feminist Theory
1 Introduction: Kant's Trace in Feminist Theory
2 Kant: Reason and the Transcendental
2.1 The Terms: 'Subject' and 'Reason'
3 The Subject and Reason in Feminist Theory
3.1 Reason and Subject as Male or Philosophy as a Male Dominated Tradition
3.2 The Possibility of the Subject as Female
3.3 No Subject at All?
3.4 Humanity and Human as the Subject: Agency
4 Conclusion
Chapter 6: Rethinking the Sublime in Kant and Shakespeare: Gender, Race and Abjection
1 Situating Kant's Aesthetics Within His Philosophy as a Whole
2 Aesthetic Judgment as Reflective, Indeterminate and Disinterested
3 The Sublime
4 Gender's Preservation of Race in Relation to Aesthetic Judgments
5 Within the Bounds of Modernism: Rose's Kristevan, Abject, Hamlet
6 Beyond Kristeva's Meaning: Wynter on The Tempest
7 Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7: Anthropology and the Nature-Culture Distinction
1 Anthropology in the Eighteenth Century
2 Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology
3 Kant's Anthropology of Gender
4 The Moral Gender
5 Questions of Origin