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Volume 8

Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences

Series Editors

Ruth Edith Hagengruber

Department of Humanities, Center for the History of Women Philosophers, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany

Mary Ellen Waithe

Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Gianni Paganini

Department of Humanities, University of Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy

As the historical records prove, women have long been creating original contributions to philosophy. We have valuable writings from female philosophers from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and a continuous tradition from the Renaissance to today. The history of women philosophers thus stretches back as far as the history of philosophy itself. The presence as well as the absence of women philosophers throughout the course of history parallels the history of philosophy as a whole.

Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir, the most famous representatives of this tradition in the twentieth century, did not appear form nowhere. They stand, so to speak, on the shoulders of the female titans who came before them.

The series Women Philosophers and Scientists published by Springer will be of interest not only to the international philosophy community, but also for scholars in history of science and mathematics, the history of ideas, and in womens studies.

More information about this series at https://www.springer.com/series/15896

Ronny Miron

Hedwig Conrad-Martius

The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality

1st ed. 2021

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Ronny Miron

Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

ISSN 2523-8760 e-ISSN 2523-8779

Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences

ISBN 978-3-030-68782-3 e-ISBN 978-3-030-68783-0

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Preface

Introduction: Die Frau in der Philosophie voran-!

A. The Prize Essay (Die Preisschrift)

Hedwig Margarete Elisabeth Martius (27 February 188815 February 1966) About two hundred essays were submitted to the strict, anonymous judgment of philosophy professors of repute and status. Only one essay, entitled The epistemological foundations of positivism (Die erkenntnisstheoretischen Grundlagen des Positivismus) was found worthy of the prize. This essay, later called the Prize Essay (Av-Lallemant, 1971, 52, 213, 1975b, 197), was written by a 21-year-old student named Hedwig Martius. The surprising win was covered by the local press. On 6 June 1912, the Berliner Tageblatt wrote:

A woman at the forefront of philosophy! Or better, a young miss (Frulein), since this is not Madame Curie or a famous lady scholar, but a young student who, by submitting an essay to a prize competition (Preisbewerbung) defeated all the other applicants [] The essay was crowned with the prize in full. The authors name was revealed when the envelopes were opened, Miss Hedwig Martius from Rostock. (HCM, 1912N)

The San Francisco Examiner, an English language newspaper published in Berlin, wrote on 22 September 1912, under the headline German Fraulein is a Clever Thinker:

People who dislike clever woman [sic] are in a tragic mood. The Cleverest philosopher in Germany is a woman, and a brand-new woman, too.

Hedwig Martius has had her book on philosophy crowned and prized by Goettingen University [sic]. A 21-year-old girl, with the round, pleasant features of an everyday German hausfrau, has beaten the cleverest brains of Germany. (HCM, 1912N)

The reporter added that the essay was found worthy of the prize due to its being profound, original, and striking. They guessed that the essay had been written by a brilliant young professor from Leipsig [sic]. But when they opened the envelope, they saw to their amazement that the essay had been composed by a young woman. It was reported that a professor from Gttingen University exclaimed: if women begin with philosophy they will go further. They will degenerate to the condition of their English suffragist sisters, and take to breaking windows (HCM, 1912N).

On the face of it, this win could have seemed as a natural, perhaps even expected, progression for someone who was known as one of the first women to have studied at a grammar school (Gymnasium) She describes this period as follows:

It was a seminar on Hume.

HCM took Moritz Geigers advice, having attended his courses on Psychology and Art History at Munich University in 19091910, and went to Gttingen.

B. The Munich Invasion of Gttingen

HCM moved from Munich to Gttingen together with a group of young philosophers previously related to the Academic Society for Psychology (Akademische Verein fr Psychologie).

HCMs star seemed to be on the rise in Gttingen, where she moved in the fall of 1910/1911. Rapidly, she became the living spirit and the driving force of the young group. During this period, she participated in the seminar of the Gttingen Young Phenomenologists, which she chaired in 1911, and was appointed Chair of The Philosophical Society in Gttingen (Die philosophische Gesellschaft Gttingen). In all these early settings, where the participation of a woman was unusual, HCM stood out as an original and daring intellectual, leading to her being known as the first lady of German philosophy (Hart, 1972, 1, 1973, 14). HCM described the atmosphere at that time with the following words:

We were not doing anything other than carefully scrutinizing virtually everything with regards to its real essence. We disputed about the essence of nature, amongst all the genres of nature plant, animal, humankinds of nature, about the sociological and historical and its nature, about art, about the psychological, ethical and transcendental. We talked about nature spirits, demons and angels as if we had, de facto, met them. We didnt meet them de factoat least not the angels, but we met their essence and got a grasp of it. We didnt ask at all whether they actually really existed. (HCM, 2015b, 61)

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