Kristin Gjesdal

Kristin Gjesdal
Born	Oslo, Norway
Education	University of Oslo (Ph.D., 2002)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Hermeneutics
Institutions	Temple University
Main interests	Hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy

Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. ^[1] She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics (focusing especially on Hans-Georg Gadamer), nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. ^[1] Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ^[2] and she serves on the editorial board of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as a subject area expert for 19th Century Philosophy. ^[3]

Awards and honours

• Distinguished Anderson Fellow 2024 (University of Sydney)
• Fulbright Foundation fellowship
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship
• Eleanor Hofkin Award for Excellence in Teaching

Books

• Herder's Hermeneutic Philosophy: History, Poetry, Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2017
• Gadamer and The Legacy of German Idealism, Cambridge University Press, 2009
• The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche, Oxford University Press, 2020
• Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century , Oxford University Press, 2021

References

1. "Filosofi og forståelse: Et intervju med Kristin Gjesdal" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2021-01-07.
2. "Medlemmer | Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi". www.dnva.no. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
3. "Editorial Board (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-30.

External links

• Kristin Gjesdal
• Kristin Gjesdal publications indexed by Google Scholar