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DIE KÜNFTIGE GENERATION : HELENE STÖCKER'S FUTURE (FROM MALTHUS TO NIETZSCHE)
Author(s) -
Deutscher Penelope
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2010.00018.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , modernity , context (archaeology) , autonomy , darwin (adl) , philosophy , german , art history , sociology , epistemology , history , law , political science , engineering , linguistics , archaeology , systems engineering
An avid reader of Nietzsche, the German radical feminist Helene Stöcker referred in 1893 to the Verfrühung of the modern woman, her prematurity. She used references to Mill, Bebel, Darwin, Galton, and Nietzsche among others to develop a concept of women's untimely modernity. This paper considers how a number of concepts of time, transformation, biological futurity, and putative agency over nature became, for Stöcker, the basis for a feminist claim to autonomy, agency, and reproductive rights. The paper goes on to ask how some of these concepts and their context could also have provided the implicit resources to resist their conversion by Stöcker.