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20Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader; Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 20 98-102. 1998.
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6Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 19 78-80. 1998.
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18The Way of Love, by Luce Irigaray, translated by Heidi Bostic and Stephen PluháĉekJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (3): 318-320. 2004.
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44Feminist Criticisms and Reinterpretations of HegelHegel Bulletin 23 (1-2): 93-109. 2002.In 1970, the Italian feminist Carla Lonzi published her now-classic polemic urging women to “spit on Hegel”. Disregarding her advice, many subsequent feminist theorists and philosophers have engaged substantially with Hegel's thought, and a wide variety of feminist readings of Hegel have sprung up. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of these different feminist criticisms and interpretations of Hegel. In introducing these various interpretations, I will show how they reflect a range …Read more
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133Hegel and ColonialismHegel Bulletin 41 (2): 247-270. 2020.This article explores the implications of Hegel’s Philosophy of World History with respect to colonialism. For Hegel, freedom can be recognized and practised only in classical, Christian and modern Europe; therefore, the world’s other peoples can acquire freedom only if Europeans impose their civilization upon them. Although this imposition denies freedom to colonized peoples, this denial is legitimate for Hegel because it is the sole condition on which these peoples can gain freedom in the long…Read more
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3Stephen Houlgate , Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature , pp. xxvii + 354. ISBN 0-7914-4144-XHegel Bulletin 25 (1-2): 163-169. 2004.
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4Thomas Kalenberg, Die Befreiung der Natur: Natur und Selbstbewußtsein in der Philosophie Hegels. Hegel-Deutungen, Band 5 , pp. xxvii + 422. ISBN 3-7873-1347-8 (review)Hegel Bulletin 22 (1-2): 104-109. 2001.
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31Hegel, Naturalism and the Philosophy of NatureHegel Bulletin 34 (1): 59-78. 2013.In this article I consider whether Hegel is a naturalist or an anti-naturalist with respect to his philosophy of nature. I adopt a cluster-based approach to naturalism, on which positions are more or less naturalistic depending how many strands of the clusternaturalismthey exemplify. I focus on two strands: belief that philosophy is continuous with the empirical sciences, and disbelief in supernatural entities. I argue that Hegel regards philosophy of nature as distinct, but not wholly discontin…Read more
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12Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and IdealismRowman & Littlefield International. 2018.This book offers a unique account of the development of thinking about nature from Early German Romanticism into the philosophies of nature of Schelling, Hegel, and beyond. Alison Stone explores the ethical and political implications of German Romantic and Idealist ideas about nature, including for gender, race, and environmentalism.
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23The Sex of Nature: A Reinterpretation of Irigaray's Metaphysics and Political ThoughtHypatia 18 (3): 60-84. 2003.I argue that Irigaray's recent work develops a theoretically cogent and politically radical form of realist essentialism. I suggest that she identifies sexual difference with a fundamental difference between the rhythms of percipient fluids constituting women's and men's bodies, supporting this with a philosophy of nature that she justifies phenomenologically and ethically. I explore the politics Irigaray derives from this philosophy, which affirms the sexes' rights to realize the possibilities …Read more
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43In response to Mader's and Deutscher's questions, the author defends her approach to reading Irigaray and Butler, which entails extending the ideas of these thinkers into areas of thought with which they do not engage directly themselves. This involves relating Irigaray's ideas to the tradition of the philosophy of nature and interpreting Butler as offering, in spite of her focus on the genealogy of claims about sex, also a theory of sex itself, a theory of sex as an effect entirely of gender. T…Read more
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42The Sex of Nature: A Reinterpretation of Irigaray's Metaphysics and Political ThoughtHypatia 18 (3): 60-84. 2003.I argue that Irigaray's recent work develops a theoretically cogent and politically radical form of realist essentialism. I suggest that she identifies sexual difference with a fundamental difference between the rhythms of percipient fluids constituting women's and men's bodies, supporting this with a philosophy of nature that she justifies phenomenologically and ethically. I explore the politics Irigaray derives from this philosophy, which affirms the sexes' rights to realize the possibilities …Read more
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The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy, Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2011.
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514The Romantic AbsoluteBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (3): 497-517. 2011.In this article I argue that the Early German Romantics understand the absolute, or being, to be an infinite whole encompassing all the things of the world and all their causal relations. The Romantics argue that we strive endlessly to know this whole but only acquire an expanding, increasingly systematic body of knowledge about finite things, a system of knowledge which can never be completed. We strive to know the whole, the Romantics claim, because we have an original feeling of it that motiv…Read more
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1145Towards a Genealogical Feminism: A Reading of Judith Butler's Political ThoughtContemporary Political Theory 4 (1): 4-24. 2005.Judith Butler's contribution to feminist political thought is usually approached in terms of her concept of performativity, according to which gender exists only insofar as it is ritualistically and repetitively performed, creating permanent possibilities for performing gender in new and transgressive ways. In this paper, I argue that Butler's politics of performativity is more fundamentally grounded in the concept of genealogy, which she adapts from Foucault and, ultimately, Nietzsche. Butler u…Read more
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46The incomplete materialism of french materialist feminismRadical Philosophy 145. 2007.French materialist feminists such as Christine Delphy and Monique Wittig maintain that the social fact of women’s exploitation by men within the family pre-exists and produces gender differences as well as the perception that men and women belong to different biological sexes. They take this position to be ‘materialist’ because it puts social facts prior to ideas and beliefs and so puts the ‘material’ prior to the ‘ideal’. However, I shall claim, drawing on arguments of Sebastiano Timpanaro’s, t…Read more
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76The sex of nature: A reinterpretation of Irigaray's metaphysics and political thoughtHypatia 18 (3): 60-84. 2003.: I argue that Irigaray's recent work develops a theoretically cogent and politically radical form of realist essentialism. I suggest that she identifies sexual difference with a fundamental difference between the rhythms of percipient fluids constituting women's and men's bodies, supporting this with a philosophy of nature that she justifies phenomenologically and ethically. I explore the politics Irigaray derives from this philosophy, which affirms the sexes' rights to realize the possibilitie…Read more
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Thomas Kalenberg's Die Befreiung Der Natur: Natur Und SelbstbewußTsein In Der Philosophie Hegels (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 43 104-109. 2001.
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Stephen Houlgate Ed’s Hegel And The Philosophy Of Nature (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 49 163-169. 2004.
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2547Natality and mortality: rethinking death with CavareroContinental Philosophy Review 43 (3): 353-372. 2010.In this article I rethink death and mortality on the basis of birth and natality, drawing on the work of the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. She understands birth to be the corporeal event whereby a unique person emerges from the mother’s body into the common world. On this basis Cavarero reconceives death as consisting in bodily dissolution and re-integration into cosmic life. This impersonal conception of death coheres badly with her view that birth is never exclusively material…Read more
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42Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s PhilosophySUNY Press. 2012._A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature._
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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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