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83On Alienation from Life: A Response to Wendell Kisner’s “A Species-Based Environmental Ethic in Hegel’s Logic of Life”The Owl of Minerva 40 (1): 69-75. 2008.In this article I respond to Wendell Kisner’s Hegelian environmental ethic. Kisner argues that because life is ontologically irreducible to mechanism it is rational to treat life not merely as a means to human purposes but as an end in itself. I argue that had Hegel consistently adhered to this position, he would have had to argue that the modern social world objectively alienates human beings from their rational selves. But Hegel in fact sees this social world as a home for rational humanity. T…Read more
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13Matter and form: Hegel, organicism, and the difference between women and menIn Kimberly Hutchings & Tuija Pulkkinen (eds.), Hegel's philosophy and feminist thought: beyond Antigone?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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16Irigaray's Ecological Phenomenology: Towards an Elemental MaterialismJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 46 (2): 117-131. 2015.This article provides an interpretation of the ecophenomenological dimension of Luce Irigaray's work. It shows that Irigaray builds upon Heidegger's recovery of the ancient sense of nature as physis, self-emergence into presence. But, against Heidegger, Irigaray insists that self-emergence is a material process undergone by fluid elements, such as air and water, of which the world is basically composed. This article shows that this “elemental materialist” position need not conflict with modern s…Read more
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641Mother-Daughter Relations and the Maternal in Irigaray and ChodorowphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 1 (1): 45-64. 2011.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Mother-Daughter Relations and the Maternal in Irigaray and ChodorowAlison StoneGod the Father and Jesus the Son; Abraham and Isaac; Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus; Zeus and Dionysus; Hamlet and his father; Fyodor Karamazov and his three sons—representations of and fantasies about father-son relationships are central to Western culture and philosophy. Within philosophy, one thinks of Hegel’s conception of the dialectic in terms of the divin…Read more
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38Matter and form: Hegel, organicism, and the difference between women and menIn Kimberly Hutchings & Tuija Pulkkinen (eds.), Hegel's Philosophy and Feminist Thought: Beyond Antigone?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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195Irigaray and Hölderlin on the relation between nature and cultureContinental Philosophy Review 36 (4): 415-432. 2003.This paper explores the compatibility of Luce Irigaray's recent insistence on the need to revalue nature, and to recognise culture's natural roots, with her earlier advocacy of social transformation towards a culture of sexual difference. Prima facie, there is tension between Irigaray's political imperatives, for if culture really is continuous with nature, this implies that our existing, non-sexuate, culture is naturally grounded and unchallengeable. To dissolve this tension, Irigaray must conc…Read more
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57Nature, continental philosophy, and environmental ethicsEnvironmental Values 14 (3): 285-294. 2005.Until recently, there has been relatively little self-conscious reflection - from either environmental or continental philosophers - on the specific contributions which continental philosophy, insofar as it is a distinctive tradition, might make to environmental thought. This situation has begun to change with several recent publications, such as Charles S. Brown and Ted Toadvine's edited collection Ecophenomenology: Back to the Earth Itself, and Bruce V. Foltz and Robert Frodeman's collection R…Read more
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193Luce Irigaray and the philosophy of sexual differenceCambridge University Press. 2006.Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural, providing a new interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce Irigaray. She defends Irigaray's unique form of essentialism and her rethinking of the relationship between nature and culture, showing how Irigaray's ideas can be reconciled with Judith Butler's performative conception of gender, through rethinking sexual difference in relation to German Romantic philosophies of nature. This is the first sustained …Read more
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36German Romantic and Idealist Conceptions of NatureIn Jürgen Stolzenberg, Karl Ameriks & Fred Rush (eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus / International Yearbook of German Idealism : Romantik / Romanticism, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 80-101. 2009.
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835Hegel on women, law, and contractIn Maria Drakopoulou (ed.), Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy, . 2014.
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32Hegel's Dialectic and the Recognition of Feminine DifferencePhilosophy Today 47 (Supplement): 132-139. 2003.
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1938Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism, and the Re‐enchantment of NatureInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 48 (1). 2005.In this paper I reconstruct Schlegel's idea that romantic poetry can re-enchant nature in a way that is uniquely compatible with modernity's epistemic and political values of criticism, self-criticism, and freedom. I trace several stages in Schlegel's early thinking concerning nature. First, he criticises modern culture for its analytic, reflective form of rationality which encourages a disenchanting view of nature. Second, he re-evaluates this modern form of rationality as making possible an ir…Read more
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40From Political to Realist Essentialism: Rereading Luce IrigarayFeminist Theory 5 (1): 5-23. 2004.This paper re-examines debates surrounding Irigaray’s ‘essentialism’, arguing that these debates have generated a widespread assumption that realist essentialism is philosophically untenable and that Irigaray must therefore be read as a non-realist, merely ‘political’, essentialist. I suggest that this assumption is unhelpful, as Irigaray’s work shows increasing commitment to a realist form of essentialism. Moreover, I argue that political essentialism is internally unstable because it aims to r…Read more
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4Hegel's Dialectic and the Recognition of Feminine DifferencePhilosophy Today 47 (Supplement): 132-139. 2003.
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