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Dr Alison Stone

Reader in European Philosophy

Degree: BA Hons Philosophy (Kent), 1990-1993 DPhil Philosophy (Sussex), 1994-1998

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

Current Teaching

I teach on the undergraduate modulesAesthetics (PPR.301), History of Philosophy (PPR.201), and the Ethics, Philosophy and Religion first year course. (EPR 100)

Research Interests

My main research interests are in two areas:

1. Feminist philosophy: particularly Irigaray and French feminism; concepts of sex, gender and the body; feminism and psychoanalysis; motherhood.
2. Post Kantian continental philosophy: particularly Early German Romanticism, Hegel and German Idealism; Marx and Marxism; the Frankfurt School.

Selected publications

Books

1. Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2004).

Website http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61038

2. Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2006) -

Website http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521118101

3. An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Polity Press, Oct 2007) Website http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745638836

4. (Ed.) The Edinburgh Critical History of Philosophy Volume Five: The Nineteenth Century, general editors David Wood and Howard Caygill (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2011)

Website http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748635665

5. Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity (Routledge, forthcoming in 2011)

Website http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415885423/

My work has been the subject of two special journal sections: a critical exchange on my Irigaray book in differences: Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 19: 3 (2008) including discussion from Penelope Deutscher and Mary Beth Mader; and critical discussion articles and my response in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain issue 51/52: Stone on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.

Journal articles

• 'Against Matricide: Rethinking Subjectivity and the Maternal Body' in Hypatia (forthcoming 2011-12)
• 'Mother-Daughter Relations and the Maternal in Irigaray and Chodorow', in Philosophia: Journal of Continental Feminism 1: 1 (2011). http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5224-philosophia-biannual.aspx
• 'The Romantic Absolute', in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19: 3 (forthcoming, 2011)
• 'Natality and mortality: rethinking death with Cavarero' in Continental Philosophy Review 43 (3)available on SpringerLinkhttp://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11007-010-9148-3
• 'French Feminism: The Maternal Against Disciplinary Power', Journal of Maternal Studies 1 (2009): http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/journal.html
• 'Unthought Nature' (final part of Critical Exchange on my Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference, in response to Penelope Deutscher and Mary Beth Mader), differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 19: 3 (2008): 150-57.
• 'German Romantic and Idealist Conceptions of Nature', in International Yearbook of German Idealism 6 (2008).
• 'On Alienation from Life', invited contribution to Owl of Minerva: Journal of the Hegel Society of America40: 1 (2008): 69-75
• 'Being, Knowledge, and Nature in Novalis', in Journal of the History of Philosophy 46: 1 (2008), pp. 141-64 (John Hopkins University Press) The journal's website is http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp/
• 'Adorno and the Disenchantment of Nature', in Philosophy and Social Criticism 32: 2 (2006).
• 'Response to Halper and Dahlstrom', conclusion to special section on Stone on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 51/52 (2006).
• 'Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism, and the Re-enchantment of Nature', in Inquiry 48: 2 (2005), pp. 3-25.
• 'Nature, Continental Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics', in Environmental Values 14: 3 (2005), pp. 1-10
• 'Towards a Genealogical Feminism: A Reading of Judith Butler's Political Thought', in Contemporary Political Theory 4: 1 (2005), pp. 4-24. (Winner of annual prize for best article in Contemporary Political Theory.)
• 'Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy', Journal of Moral Philosophy 1: 2 (2004), pp. 135-153
• 'From Political to Realist Essentialism: Rereading Luce Irigaray', in Feminist Theory 5: 1 (2004), pp. 5-23.
• 'Hegel's Dialectic and the Recognition of Feminine Difference', in Philosophy Today supplementary volume (2003).
• 'Irigaray and Hölderlin on the Relation Between Nature and Culture', Continental Philosophy Review 36: 4 (2003), pp. 415-432
• 'Feminist Criticisms and Reinterpretations of Hegel', in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 45/46 (2003), pp. 93-109.
• 'The Sex of Nature: A Reinterpretation of Irigaray's Metaphysics and Political Thought', in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18: 3 (2003), pp. 60-84.
• 'Ethical Implications of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature', in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10: 2 (2002), pp. 255-272.
• 'Sexing the State: Familial and Political Form in Irigaray and Hegel', in Radical Philosophy 113 (2002), pp. 24-36.
• 'Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Overcoming the Division Between Matter and Thought', in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 39: 4 (2000), pp. 725-43.
• 'Hegel's Theory of Natural Sexual Relationships', in Women's Philosophy Review 22 (Nov 1999), pp. 34-57.

Articles in books

• 'On the Genealogy of Women: Against Essentialism', in Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Assessment, ed. S. Gillis, G. Howie, and B. Munford (Palgrave, 2004).
• 'Hegel on Law, Women and Contract' in Maria Drakopoulou (ed.) Reading Law Reading Women (London: Cavendish Glasshouse, forthcoming)
• 'Adorno on Logic' in Deborah Cook (ed.) Adorno: Key Concepts (London: Acumen, 2008).
• 'Matter and Form: Hegel, Organicism and Sex Difference' in Hegel and Gender, ed. Kimberly Hutchings and Tuija Pulkkinen (Macmillan, 2010)
• 'Hegel and Feminist Politics: A Symposium' (co-authored with N. Bauer, K. Hutchings, and T. Pulkkinen), in Hegel and Gender, ed. Hutchings and Pulkkinen, as above.
• 'Gender, the Family, and the Organic State in Hegel's Political Thought', in Hegel's Philosophy of Right: Essays on Ethics, Politics and Law, ed. Thom Brooks (Blackwell, forthcoming 2011)

• 'Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century', Editor's Introduction to The Edinburgh Critical History Volume Five: The Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2011)

• 'Hölderlin and Nature', in Embodied Values and the Environment, ed. Emily Brady and Pauline Phemister (Springer, forthcoming 2011)

• 'Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter' in Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering, ed. Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt(Routledge, forthcoming 2011)

Reference entries

• 'Irigaray' entry in The Great Thinkers, ed. J. Baggini (Continuum, 2004).
• 'Nineteenth Century Philosophy', in Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Callicott and Frodeman (Macmillan, 2009), 367-72

Edited journal issues

• Special issue of Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain on 'Hegel and Literature' (2010)
• Special issue of Environmental Values on 'Nature and Continental Philosophy' (2005).
• (with S. Sandford) Special issue of Women's Philosophy Review 22 on 'Hegel and Feminism' (Nov 1999).

Review articles

• . 'Intelligibility, materiality, politics: Recent work on Judith Butler', in International Feminist Journal of Politics 11: 3 (2009): 433-53
• . 'Going Beyond Oppositional Thinking? The Possibility of a Hegelian Feminist Philosophy' in Res Publica 10: 3 (2004): 301-10

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Feminist philosophy

German Idealism and Romanticism

nineteenth-century German philosophy

twentieth-century Continental philosophy

French feminism

Hegel

Career details

I did my DPhil at the University of Sussex from 1994 to 1998. My thesis was 'Sexual Difference and the Philosophy of Nature: Hegel, Irigaray and the Material'.

After finishing my DPhil I took up a temporary Lectureship in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, lecturing mainly in political and feminist philosophy (1998-1999).

Then for three years I held the Thole Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (1999-2002).

I then came to the then Centre for Philosophy at Lancaster (2002- ).

From 2004-2005 I held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and in 2007 I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2005 I received a Research Prize from Lancaster University and an (annual) prize for the best article in the journal Contemporary Political Theory.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Alison Stone has 48 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Stone, Alison (2011) Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity. Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy . Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0-415-88542-3

Stone, Alison (2010) Natality and mortality : rethinking death with Cavarero. Continental Philosophy Review, 43 (3). pp. 353-372. ISSN 1387-2842

Stone, Alison (2012) Against Matricide:Rethinking subjectivity and the maternal body. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 27 (1). pp. 118-138. ISSN 0887-5367

Stone, Alison (2011) The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. The Edinburgh critical history of philosophy, 5 . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748635665 (In Press)

Stone, Alison (2007) An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0745638829

Stone, Alison (2006) Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-5218-6270-1

Stone, Alison (2005) Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism, and the Re-enchantment of Nature. Inquiry, 48 (1). pp. 3-25. ISSN 0020-174X

Stone, Alison (2004) Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 1 (2). pp. 135-153. ISSN 17404681

Stone, Alison (2004) Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-6294-3

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