Allegra de Laurentiis
John S. Toll Professor Emerita
Philosophy
Education: Ph.D. Universität Frankfurt, Germany, 1982 • M.A. Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany, 1978 • Laurea in Filosofia, Università la Sapienza, Roma, 1975
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth century, especially Hegel's system (foci: Science of Logic, Philosophy of Spirit, Philosophy of Right); Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle (foci: De Anima and parts of Physics and Metaphysics); and Hegel's interpretation of Greek philosophy.
Areas of Competence include issues in eighteenth and nineteenth century moral and
political philosophy; Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and his Philosophy of
History; Marx and Marxisms; and Globalization studies.
Born in Rome, Italy, she studied philosophy in Tübingen, Rome and Frankfurt. She earned
her Laurea in Filosofia in 1975 at the Università la Sapienza, Roma, with a thesis
on N. Goodman and W.v.O. Quine. She completed her German doctorate at the Goethe Universität
in Frankfurt in 1982 with a dissertation on Marx’s relation to Kantian and Hegelian
philosophy (published with Peter Lang Publishers in 1985). She taught at Villanova University (1987-1990) and Miami University of Ohio (1990-1994)
before joining the faculty at Stony Brook in 1994 as a Lecturer and eventually as
Assistant Professor. In 2019 she was promoted to full Professor in the Philosophy
Department.
De Laurentiis’ research centers on Hegel’s Aristotelianism, nineteenth-century philosophical
anthropologies, the philosophy of history, and philosophical conceptions of right
in Kant, Hegel and Marx. Her undergraduate teaching at SBU encompasses introductory
courses in logic and western philosophy, as well as upper levels in modern political
philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, and metaphysics. Her graduate teaching includes
nineteenth-century political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, metaphysics and
aesthetics, as well as selected works by Aristotle.
To learn more about Professor de Laurentiis please visit her Curriculum Vitae.