
How the feminist philosopher Helene Stöcker canonised Nietzsche
Despite Nietzsche’s reputation for misogyny, his work inspired a leading women’s rights activist of the early 20th century
by Lydia Moland
Lydia Moland is the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Professor of Philosophy at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Her books include Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life (2022), Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism (2019) and the edited collection All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (2018). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century.