Hegel and Ibsen: Aesthetic Consciousness and Dramatic Self-Knowledge in 'A Doll's House'

Kristin Gjesdal
Temple University

Friday, December 5, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Kohlberg 228

All are welcome

Kristin Gjesdal specializes in German Idealism, phenomenology and hermeneutics. She studied philosophy at the University of Oslo, and has 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. Her work has appeared in journals including Kant-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, and Angelaki. She has also written the "hermeneutics"-entry for the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (co-authored with Bjørn Ramberg). She has articles forthcoming in Hegel-Studien and The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. She recently completed a book manuscript entitled Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (under contract with Cambridge University Press).