Alison Stone is Professor of European Philosophy at Lancaster University. She is the author of Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (SUNY, 2004), Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (CUP, 2006), An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Polity, 2007), Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity (Routledge, 2011), and The Value of Popular Music (Palgrave, 2016). She edited the Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (2011) and co-edited the Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (2017). She co-edits the Hegel Bulletin.
Introduction: Luce Irigaray and the nature of sexual difference
1. Re-reading Irigaray: realism and sexual difference
2. Judith Butler's challenge to Irigaray
3. Nature, sexual duality, and bodily multiplicity
4. Irigaray and Hölderlin on the relation between nature and culture
5. Irigaray and Hegel on the relation between family and state
6. From sexual difference to self-differentiating nature
Conclusion: reconciling duality and multiplicity.