Agnes Taubert

Agnes Taubert
Agnes Taubert
Born	January 7, 1844; Stralsund, Prussia
Died	May 8, 1877 (aged 33); Berlin, German Empire
Notable work	Pessimism and Its Opponents
Spouse(s)	Eduard von Hartmann (m. 1872)
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
	Influences Eduard von Hartmann;

Agnes Taubert (7 January 1844 – 8 May 1877) was a German writer and philosopher.

Biography

Taubert was the daughter of an artillery colonel.[1]

In 1872, Taubert married the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann in Berlin-Charlottenburg and had a child with him. She was a staunch defender of her husband's work The Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869) and wrote two books which both critiqued and defended his ideas.[2] Her work Pessimism and Its Opponents (1873) was a major influence on the pessimism controversy in Germany.[2] She has been described as "one of the first women to have a prominent role in a public intellectual debate in Germany."[2]

Taubert died in 1877, of "an attack of a rheumatism of the joints".[3]

Works

Philosophy Against Scientific Survey: A correction of Dr. Ing. med. Geo. Stiebeling and his alleged refutation of Hartmann's doctrine of the unconscious in corporeality (Philosophie Gegen Naturwissenschaftliche Ueberhebung), Duncker, Berlin 1872
Pessimism and Its Opponents (Der Pessimismus und seine Gegner), Duncker, Berlin 1873

References

Hall, Granville Stanley (1912). Founders of Modern Psychology. New York; London: Appleton. p. 184.
Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). "The Pessimism Controversy, 1870–1890". Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 168. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198768715.001.0001. ISBN 9780198768715.
Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). "Two Forgotten Women Philosophers". After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840–1900. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780691173719.

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[1] Hall, Granville Stanley (1912). Founders of Modern Psychology. New York; London: Appleton. p. 184.

[:02-2] Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). "The Pessimism Controversy, 1870–1890". Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860–1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 168. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198768715.001.0001. ISBN 9780198768715.

[:12-3] Beiser, Frederick C. (2016). "Two Forgotten Women Philosophers". After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840–1900. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 217. ISBN 9780691173719.