The Vocation of the Intellectual Woman

04/06/2025 47 min Temporada 1 Episodio 6

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Episode Synopsis

Daybreak hits the road. Join us as we visit the Pacific Division of the APA in San Francisco to take part in a groundbreaking panel on the work of Amalia Holst. The episode centres on a talk by Dalia Nassar on the vocation debate in eighteenth century Germany: what is the human being and what ought we become?Dalia draws on the work of Germaine de Staël and Amalia Holst to expose the exclusion of women from the human vocation and to challenge the neglect of women philosophers in the canon. Here's a link to Dalia's research.