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SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Madeleine-Sophie Schmitz: Lou Andreas-Salomé on Subjectivity: Gendered Mediation of Essence\, Selfhood\, and Freedom.
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists’ Research Colloquium in the Winter Semester 2026/27\, we are pleased to welcome Madeleine-Sophie Schmitz (University of Vienna)\, who will present their talk entitled “Lou Andreas-Salomé on Subjectivity: Gendered Mediation of Essence\, Selfhood\, and Freedom.” \nAbstract: Madeleine will offer an overview of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s philosophy on gender and freedom\, presenting the beginning stages of their dissertation titled “Lou Andreas-Salomé on Subjectivity: Gendered Mediation of Essence\, Selfhood\, and Freedom.” This project reconstructs Lou Andreas-Salomé’s philosophy of gendered subjectivity\, arguing that essence\, selfhood\, and freedom constitute interdependent dimensions of a single account of subjectivity. While scholarship has begun to situate Salomé within the intellectual history of nineteenth-century women philosophers and has examined her contributions to questions of life\, self-development\, gender\, and psychoanalysis\, no systematic reconstruction and philosophical discussion of her account of subjectivity exists to date. The project’s primary aim is to address this gap by examining how Salomé conceptualizes the subject as an embodied\, affective\, gendered\, and dynamically developing unity rather than as an abstract or gender-neutral rational agent. The project focuses on three interconnected problems. First\, it reconstructs Salomé’s philosophy of gender\, arguing that gender functions neither as a fixed biological determinant nor as a merely socially constructed identity\, but as a constitutive and transformable structure mediating embodiment\, affectivity\, and experience. Second\, it reconstructs her account of essence and selfhood\, showing how the unity of the self is maintained through processes of differentiation\, tension\, reflection\, and development. On this interpretation\, essence is neither a static substance nor a purely formal condition\, but an immanent and processual ground of embodied selfhood. Third\, the project examines Salomé’s conception of freedom\, arguing that agency does not consist in escaping the conditions that constitute the subject\, but in the capacity to inhabit\, negotiate\, and transform them. \n  \nAbout the speaker: Madeleine Schmitz earned their BA and MA in Philosophy from The William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University\, where they also earned a BA in English. Recently\, they were a Lecturer in the Modern Languages and Linguistics Department at the University of Limerick\, teaching upper-level German literature and philosophy courses. Currently\, they serve as the research assistant on the DAAD-funded Project titled “European Societal Challenges in German Culture: Exploring Aging and Climate Change in Tandem” in addition to beginning their PhD in Philosophy at the University of Vienna. Madeleine works primarily on 19th- and early 20th-century German women philosophers\, but also more broadly on German Idealism\, Feminist Philosophy\, and History of Philosophy. \n  \nIf you want to participate or simply listen to the talks\, please contact: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org 
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-madeleine-sophie-schmitz-lou-andreas-salome-on-subjectivity-gendered-mediation-of-essence-selfhood-and-freedom/
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