Why did Ibsen put ‘philosophers in skirts’ up on the stage?
When Henrik Ibsen put ‘philosophers in skirts’ into his plays, he demonstrated a different way of thinking about the world
by Kristin Gjesdal
Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her books include The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (2020) and, co-edited with Dalia Nassar, Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century (2021).
Written by Kristin Gjesdal