LAST CALL: New Perspectives on Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 Correspondence with Immanuel Kant (ASECS, panel)
updated:
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) (Annual Convention, On-line, March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025, https://asecs.org)
deadline for submissions:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 correspondence with Immanuel Kant—arising out of her despair and suicidal ideation, coupled with her commitment of his philosophical perspective, including his famously uncompromising prohibition of suicide—has enjoyed increasingly careful attention in the roughly forty years now since Beverley Brown and Rae Langton’s invitations to this effect, in the mid-eighties and early-nineties—most recently as the subject of the annual Kant Reading Party at the University of St Andrews, in July and August of 2023, out of which a volume of new translations and critical materials will soon emerge.