Agnes Taubert

Agnes Taubert
Born
Agnes Marie Constanze Taubert

(1844-01-07)7 January 1844
Died8 May 1877(1877-05-08) (aged 33)
NationalityGerman
Other namesA. Taubert
Spouse
(m. 1872)
Children1
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolPost-Schopenhauerian pessimism
Notable works
  • Philosophy Against the Overreach of Natural Sciences (1872)
  • Pessimism and Its Opponents (1873)

Agnes Marie Constanze von Hartmann (née Taubert; 7 January 1844 – 8 May 1877), who wrote under the name A. Taubert, was a German philosopher and writer. She was married to the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann and was a passionate advocate for his work, Philosophy of the Unconscious (1869). She authored two books that both critiqued and defended his ideas: Philosophie gegen naturwissenschaftliche Ueberhebung ("Philosophy Against the Overreach of Natural Sciences"; 1872) and Der Pessimismus und seine Gegner ("Pessimism and Its Opponents"; 1873). These works played a significant role in the intellectual debates surrounding the pessimism controversy in Germany.