Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings

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Anna Ezekiel (Honorary Fellow, Philosophy Department, Honorary Fellow, Philosophy Department, University of York)

Karoline von Günderrode

Name: Karoline von Günderrode
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Philosophical Writings

Anna Ezekiel (Honorary Fellow, Philosophy Department, Honorary Fellow, Philosophy Department, University of York)

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Oxford University Press Inc
05 June 2026

Philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; History of ideas

Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy

At the start of the nineteenth century, Karoline von Günderrode burst onto the German intellectual scene with multi-genre collections of philosophical literature that were read by Goethe, Clemens Brentano, and other famous writers and academics. But Günderrode's philosophical insights were largely ignored or adopted without credit and in 1806 she died by suicide, leaving behind a small but powerful set of reflections on the nature of the self, friendship, life after death, human-nature relations, social progress, epistemology, religion, ethics, and many other topics. Long celebrated as an embodiment of tragic Romantic poetry, Günderrode has recently been rediscovered as the author of an original and exciting philosophy. Günderrode was a nuanced thinker with a gift for using literary forms to engage readers with philosophical ideas. This volume makes many of Günderrode's most significant published and unpublished works, along with excerpts from her letters and notes on philosophical topics, available for the first time in English. The short introductions accompanying each text explicate the ideas embedded in Günderrode's writing, connecting them to intellectual debates of the day and to relevant work by better-known philosophers including Kant, Plato, Schelling, Herder, Schleiermacher, Hemsterhuis, Schlegel, and Novalis. The general introduction provides a more comprehensive orientation to Günderrode's philosophy, considering her metaphysics, epistemology, social and political thought, ethics, aesthetics, and reflections on gender, death, friendship, and human identity.

Edited by: Anna Ezekiel (Honorary Fellow Philosophy Department Honorary Fellow Philosophy Department University of York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780190089146
ISBN 10: 0190089148
Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 05 June 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Ezekiel is a translator and historian of philosophy focused on post-Kantian German philosophy, especially work by historical women philosophers. Her translations of writings by Karoline von Günderrode, Bettina Brentano-von Arnim, Edith Stein, and others appear in Poetic Fragments (SUNY Press, 2016) and Women Philosophers in the Long 19th Century: The German Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2021). Dr. Ezekiel is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on historical women philosophers, German Idealism, and Romanticism. She gained her PhD in philosophy from McGill in 2013 and now teaches on philosophy and gender at Parami University in Myanmar.