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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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2524Natality 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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41Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s PhilosophySUNY Press. 2012._A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature._
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53Nature, 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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192Luce 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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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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626Mother-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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36Matter 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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194Irigaray 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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37From 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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1207Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal SubjectivityRoutledge. 2011.In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or, in modernity, an autonomous subject. These assumptions make it difficult to be a mother and a subject, an autonomous creator of meaning. Insofar as mothers nonetheless strive to regain th…Read more
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30Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal SubjectivityRoutledge. 2011.In this book, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended in childhood to become a self or, in modernity, an autonomous subject. These assumptions make it difficult to be a mother and a subject, an autonomous creator of meaning. Insofar as mothers nonetheless strive to regain th…Read more
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51Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Overcoming the Division between Matter and ThoughtDialogue 39 (4): 725. 2000.RÉSUMÉ: La Philosophie de la nature de Hegel élabore une théorie complexe et systématique du monde naturel, qui est passée presque inaperçue dans la littérature secondaire. Selon cette théorie, la nature passe progressivement d'une division originale entre ses deux éléments constitutifs, la pensée et la matière, à leur unification finale, par une séquence rationnellement nécessaire d'étapes dans le processus. Cette progression naturelle présente une structure identique à celle de la progression …Read more
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48Gender, the Family, and the Organic State in Hegel's Political ThoughtIn Thom Brooks (ed.), Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.This chapter contains sections titled: Women's Place in the Hegelian State The Organic State and Individual Freedom Tensions in the Organic Model: For and Against Sex Equality Animal State, Vegetal State: Hegel versus Early German Romanticism Notes Abbreviations References.
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34German 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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