What is it about?
Germaine de Staël popularised a laudatory version of Kant's place in the history of ideas that is challenged once one takes into consideration works by earlier women, Catharine Cockburn and Elise Riemarus and that of her contemporary, Isabelle de Charrière.
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Why is it important?
Demonstrates how reading women's contributions to philosophy opens up new insights and critical perspectives on the history of ideas and Kant's place in it.
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This page is a summary of: Women's Reception of Kant, 1790–1810, Journal of the History of Ideas, April 2023, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2023.0012.
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