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Agnes Marie Constanze von Hartmann (née Taubert; 7 January 1844 – 8 May 1877), who wrote under the name A. Taubert, was a German philosopher and writer. She is known for her 1873 book Pessimism and Its Opponents and its contribution to the pessimism controversy in Germany.
Biography
Taubert was born on 7 January 1844, in Stralsund, Kingdom of Prussia. She was the daughter of an artillery colonel, who was friends with the father of the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann. In 1872, Taubert married Von Hartmann in Berlin-Charlottenburg and had a child with him.
Taubert was a staunch supporter of her husband's work, Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869), and wrote two books—both critiquing and defending his ideas—under the pen name A. Taubert. By publishing under a pen name, she was not recognized as a woman philosopher and was instead engaged with as if she were a man.
Taubert's work, Pessimism and Its Opponents (1873), was a major influence on the pessimism controversy in Germany. In the text, she defined the problem that philosophical pessimism engages with as "a matter of measuring the eudaimonological value of life in order to determine whether existence is preferable to non-existence or not"; like her husband, Taubert argued that the answer to this problem is "empirically ascertainable".
Taubert died in Berlin, on 8 May 1877, of "an attack of a rheumatism of the joints", which was described as "extremely painful".
Legacy
Taubert has been described as "one of the first women to have a prominent role in a public intellectual debate in Germany" and has been compared to Olga Plümacher and Amalie J. Hathaway, two contemporary women philosophers who also contributed to the pessimism controversy.
A chapter on Taubert and Plümacher by Frederick C. Beiser was included in the 2024 Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition.
Works
Philosophie gegen naturwissenschaftliche ueberhebung: Eine zurechtweisung des dr. med. Geo Stiebeling und seiner angeblichen widerlegung der Hartmann schen lehre vom unbewussten in der leiblichkeit [Philosophy versus scientific arrogance: A reprimand from Dr. med. Geo Stiebeling and his alleged refutation of Hartmann's theory of the unconscious in corporeality] (in German). Berlin: Carl Duncker's verlag (C. Heymons). 1872. OCLC 555590478.
Der pessimismus und seine gegner [Pessimism and Its Opponents] (in German). Berlin: Carl Duncker's verlag (C. Heymons). 1873. OCLC 16408190.
References
Further reading
Dahlkvist, Tobias (2007). Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism (PDF) (Thesis). Uppsala University. pp. 77–79
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