Allegra de Laurentiis - Curriculum Vitae
Department of Philosophy
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
(631) 632-7570
Email: allegra.delaurentiis@stonybrook.edu
Education
1982 PhD in Philosophy. Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
1978 MA in Philosophy. Wolfgang von Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.
1975 Laurea in Filosofia. Università Statale La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
POSITIONS
2024-2026 Stony Brook University, John-Toll Professor Emerita
2019-2023 SBU, Professor, Department of Philosophy
2006-2019 SBU, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
2008-2013 SBU, Faculty Director, College of Global Studies
2001-2006 SBU, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
1994-2001 SBU, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
1990-1994 Miami University of Ohio, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
1987-1990 Villanova University (PA), Instructor, Department of Philosophy
1983-1987 Pädagogische Arbeitsstelle des Deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes, Frankfurt, Germany. Researcher, Working Class Foreign Language Acquisition
Selected Publications
Books
Subjects in the Ancient and Modern World: on Hegel’s Theory of Subjectivity (monograph). Palgrave-MacMillan 2005.
The Bloomsbury Companion to Hegel (co-editor). Bloomsbury 2013.
Hegel and Metaphysics. On Logic and Ontology in the System (editor). DeGruyter 2016.
Arbeiten zu Hegel und verwandten Themen. Vol. 3 of: Manfred Baum. Kleine Schriften (co-editor). De Gruyter 2020.
Hegel’s Anthropology. Life, Psyche and Second Nature (monograph). Northwestern UP 2021.
Articles & Book Chapters
“Kant’s Shameful Proposition. A Hegel-Inspired Criticism of Kant’s Theory of Domestic Right.” In International Philosophical Quarterly, XL:3, no. 159, 2000, 297-312.
“Hegel’s Legacy in Marx’s Conception of Right.” In Southwest Philosophy Review, 17:2, 2001, 25-42.
“On Hegel’s Concept of Thinking.” Chapter in Societas Rationis. Festschrift für Burkhardt Tuschling zum 65. Geburtstag. D. Hüning, G. Stiening, U. Vogel eds. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2002, 263-85.
“The Place of Rousseau in Hegel’s System.” Chapter in Hegel’s History of Philosophy: New Interpretations. D. Duquette ed. Proceedings of the Hegel Society of America. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003, 121-41.
“The Tenacity of Contradiction. Hegel on Ancient and Modern Views of Paradox.” Chapter in Aufklärung und Kritik. Festschrift für Manfred Baum zum 65. Geburtstag. D. Hüning, K. Michel, A. Thomas eds. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004, 405-38.
“The One and the Concept: On Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s Parmenides.” In Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal vol. 3:1, 2004, 61-79. Reprinted in Hegel’s Theory of the Subject, D.G. Carlson ed. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-McMillan, 2006, 44-59.
“Wie aus dem Begriff des Ich dessen Realität vernünftig herauszuklauben sei.” In Hegel-Jahrbuch 2005. Glauben und Wissen. Dritter Teil. A. Arndt, K. Bal, H. Ottmann eds. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2005, 198-203.
“On the Difference Between Understanding and Reason. Aspects of Hegel’s Kant-Criticism and of Contemporary Forms of Understanding.” Chapter in System and Context: Early Romantic and Early Idealistic Constellations. R. Ahlers, ed. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press/New Athenaeum vol. 7, 2005, 47-92.
“Metaphysical Foundations of the History of Philosophy. Hegel’s 1820 Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy.” In Review of Metaphysics vol. 59:1, 2005, 3-32.
“On Hegel’s Interpretation of Aristotle’s De Anima: A Qualified Defense.” Chapter in Hegel: New Directions. K. Deligiorgi ed. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2006, 227-42.
“The Parmenides and De Anima from Hegel’s Perspective.” In Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, vol. 54, 2006, 51-68.
“Not Hegel’s Tales: Applied Concepts, Negotiated Truths, and the Reciprocity of Un-equals.” In Philosophy and Social Criticism, E. Mendieta, R. Eason eds. Vol. 33:1, 2007, 83-98.
“Spirit Without the Form of Self. On Hegel’s Reading of Greek Antiquity.” Chapter in Hegel and History. W.C. Dudley ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009, 135-153.
“Absolute Knowing.” Book chapter in The Blackwell Guide to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. K.R. Westphal ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp. 246-264.
“Universal Historiography and World History According to Hegel.” Book chapter in Historiae Mundi. Studies in Universal Historiography. P. Liddel, A. Fear eds. London, UK: Duckworth Publishers, 2010, pp. 207-220.
“La soluzione aristotelica del dualismo da parte di Hegel.” Book chapter in Metaphysics 2006. Proceedings of the Metaphysics 3rd World Conference, Universita’ Urbano VIII, Roma, IT. Roma/Madrid, Fondazione Idente: 2012, pp. 36-42.
“Race in Hegel: Text and Context.” Book chapter in Philosophie nach Kant. Neue Wege zum Verständnis von Kants Transzendental- und Moralphilosophie. Mario Egger ed., De Gruyter, March 2014, pp. 607-639.
“Rights-Pragmatism and the Right of Humanity. International Politics in Kant’s and Hegel’s Perspectives.” In Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 102, 2016/1. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag, pp. 22-39.
“Hylemorphism and Hegel’s Account of the Soul.” In Jahrbuch für Hegelforschung 18-20 (2012-14), Helmut Schneider, ed., Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2017, pp. 247-265.
“The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s ‘Soul’.” Book chapter in Hegel and Ancient Philosophy. A Re-Examination. Glenn A. Magee, editor. London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 115-131.
“Derangements of the Soul.” Book chapter in Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical guide. Marina Bykova, editor. Cambridge UP, 2019, pp. 83-103.
“Sentience and Feeling in the Anthropology.” Book chapter in Palgrave Hegel Handbook, Marina Bykova and K.R. Westphal, eds. Palgrave, 2020, pp. 297-315.
“Bir ve Kavram: Hegel’in Platon’un Parmenides’inin Yorumu Uzerine [“The One and the Concept: On Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s Parmenides”]. Translated into Turkish by Keziban Der. In Arkhe-Logos 2020:10, 45-62.
“Substantial Ends and Choices Without a Will: Greek Tragedy as Archetype of Tragic Drama.” Book chapter in Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy: New Essays. Mark Alznauer, editor. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021, pp. 97-116.
“An Early Translation of Aristotle’s De Anima by G.W.F. Hegel.” In Kronos Philosophical Journal, vol. X 2021, pp. 11-33.
“On Arash Abazari’s Hegel’s Ontology of Power. The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism.” In Hegel Bulletin (Hegel Society of Great Britain), Section “Author Meets Critic”, Spring 2022, 291-304.
“Natural and Unnatural Movements of the Soul.” Chapter in Hegels Philosophie der Realität, edited by Ermylos Plevrakis. Brill (Critical Studies in German Idealism), 2024, 252-71.
“Reply to my Critics.” In The Owl of Minerva 54:1-2 (2023)
“Reply to Luca Corti.” On Corti’s: “The natural basis and unnatural developments of
the human spirit: on Allegra de Laurentiis’s Hegel’s Anthropology. Life, Psyche and Second Nature.” In Review of the Society of German Idealism and Romanticism (SGIR) vol 7, (2024)
"Los trastornos del alma en la antropología de Hegel." In Studia Hegeliana vol. X (2024), 63-87.
“On the Political Subtext of Hegel’s ‘The Good and Conscience’.” Chapter 6 in New Perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, edited by Andrew Davis and Sebastian Rand. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
“Leib und Seele in der Anthropologie am Beispiel menschlicher Verrücktheit.” In Hegel-Studien 58 (2025), pp. 17-29.
“Psychosomatics in Hegel’s Anthropology.” In Krankheit um 1800, edited by Annette Sell. Frommann-Holzboog, 2026 (forthcoming).
“Free Will and Statehood in Hegel’s Political Philosophy. Contribution to the symposium on Fernanda Gallo’s Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas 1832-1900.” In History of European Ideas 2026. Cambridge UP 2026.
“Is Hegel’s Gendering of Sex an Example of ‘Speculative Empiricism’?” Book chapter in Gendering Idealism, edited by Stefania Achella and Bojana Jovićević. Springer 2026 (forthcoming).
“Hegel on the ‘Infinite Recalcitrance’ of Property in Bourgeois Society.” Book chapter in
Hegel and the Hegelian Tradition in Political Thought. R. Bourke, F. Gallo, D. Moggach eds. Oxford University Press 2026 (forthcoming).
BOOKS REVIEWS
(2000) Th. W. Adorno, Critical Models. Interventions and Catchwords.
(2001) J. McCumber, Metaphysics and Oppression: Heidegger’s Challenge to Western Philosophy.
(2002) K. Ameriks (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.
2008) L.J. Kavanaugh, The Architectonic of Philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz.
(2011) P.Carravetta, Del Postmoderno.
(2013) R.D. Winfield, Hegel’s Science of Logic. A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures.
(2019) J.-F. Kervégan, The Actual and the Rational. Hegel and Objective Spirit.
(2022) A. Abazari, Hegel’s Ontology of Power. The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism.
(2022) G. Battistoni, Azione e imputazione in G.W.F. Hegel alla luce dell’interpretazione di K.L. Michelet.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
Aristotle’s De Anima; Critical Theory (the Frankfurt School); Hegel’s Anthropology; Lectures on Aesthetics; Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Science of Logic; Hegel’s System; Marx’s Grundrisse and Kapital; Comparative study of Hegel’s Anthropology and Aristotle’s De Anima.
ADVISOR OF DISSERTATIONS
Paul Humphrey: “Metaphysics of Mind: Hylomorphism and Eternality in Aristotle and Hegel.” Stony Brook and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Co-Director: prof. Manfred Baum. Degree conferred 2007.
Karen I. Burke: “The Idea of Organism in Hegel’s System.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Proposal defended May 2007. M. Phil. conferred posthumously 2007.
Senem Saner: “System and Critique. The Relation between Reason and Actuality in Hegel’s Logik and Realphilosophie.” Stony Brook and Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Co-Director: prof. Manfred Baum. Degree conferred 2008.
Miles Hentrup: “Hegel and Skepticism.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2016.
Harrison Fluss: “The Specter of Spinoza: On the Legacy of the Pantheism Controversy in Hegel’s Thought.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2016.
Wakagi Takahashi: “Hegel and Arendt on the French Revolution.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2017.
Hamad Al-Rayes: “Thinking Counterintuitively: The Beginning of Philosophical Cognition in Light of Hegel’s Critique of Construction.” Collegium Transatlanticum dissertation. Degree conferred 2018.
Edoardo Bellando: “‘From Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Needs:’ Meaning and Background of the Marxian Motto.” Degree conferred 2020.
Christopher Manno: “Marx’s Architect: Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the Foundations of the Marxian System.” Degree conferred 2022.
Hojung (Harriet) You: “Kant, Hegel, and Their Diverging Theories of International and Cosmopolitan Right.” Proposal successfully defended 2025 (co-advisor).
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The Place of Rousseau in the Logic of the Concept.” Hegel Society of America 16th Biennial Meeting, Fordham University (NY), October 2000.
“On Hegel’s Concept of Thinking.” Third Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Collegium of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta (GA), January 2002.
“Do We Need a Critique of Feminist Reason?” Gender and Moral Subjectivity: Feminist Dimensions of Practical Philosophy, Phillips Universität Marburg (Germany), June 2002.
“Wie aus dem Begriff des Ich seine Realität vernünftig auszuklauben sei.” 24th Congress of the International Hegel Society, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany), August 2002.
“Not Hegel’s Tales: Applied Concepts, Negotiated Truths, and the Reciprocity of Un-equals.” R. Brandon-Symposium: Pragmatism and the History of Philosophy. Stony Brook University, November 2003.
“The One and the Concept. On Hegel’s Reading of Plato’s ‘Parmenides.’” Conference: Hegel’s Logic of the Subject. B. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University (NY), March 2004.
“The Parmenides and De Anima from Hegel’s Perspective.” Conference: Hegel and the Greeks. Hegel Society of Great Britain, Oxford (UK), September 2005.
“La soluzione aristotelica del dualismo da parte di Hegel.” Terza Conferenza Mondiale sulla Metafisica, Università Urbano VIII. Città del Vaticano (IT), July 2006.
“Impassive yet Receptive. On Hegel’s Interpretation of nous.” Conference: Reading Aristotle’s De Anima, Bishop’s University (CA), September-October 2006.
“Spirit Without the Form of Self. On Hegel’s Reading of Greek Antiquity.” XIX Biennial Conference of the Hegel Society of America, Chicago, October 2006.
“Hegel, the Greeks and the Idea of History.” Conference: Universal History. Dept. of Classics and Ancient History. University of Manchester (UK), June 2007.
“The Last Chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology. A Conclusion and a Beginning.” International Conference on the Phenomenology of Spirit—200th anniversary of the publication. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 2007
“Etica politica nei rapporti internazionali: Kant e Hegel sull’ipocrisia del filantropismo.” Conference: Democracy’s Destiny. Relativism and Universalization. Network of Italian Scholars Abroad, Castel dell’Ovo e Palazzo Cavalcanti, Naples (IT), May 2009.
“Kant and Hegel on the Right and the Useful in International politics.” NY German Idealism Workshops. The New School (NY), October 2009.
“A Developmental Sketch of Hegel’s System.” Fordham University (NY), March 2011.
“Why Thought Must Think Itself: Aristotle and Hegel on Psyche’s Activity.” Long Island Philosophical Society Conference. St. Francis College (NY), April 2011.
“Race in Hegel: Text and Context.” NY German Idealism Workshops. Columbia U. (NY), September 2011.
“Blumenbach, Hegel and the Modern Anthropology of Race.” XXIX International Hegel Congress of the Internationale Hegel Gesellschaft, Boghasici Universitesi, Istanbul (Türkiye), October 2012.
“Kant’s and Hegel’s Political Critique of Moralism.” Society for German Idealism, APA Pacific Division. San Diego (Ca), April 2014.
“Hylemorphism and Hegel’s account of the Soul.” Conference: Filosofia dello Spirito Oggi. Università degli Studi Carlo Bo, Urbino (IT), November 2015.
“The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s Seele.” Twenty Fourth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America. Concordia University, Montreal (CA), November 2016.
“La concettualità aristotelica dell’Antropologia di Hegel.” Conference: Il Pensiero Filosofico e la Sua Storia. Università degli Studi Carlo Bo, Urbino (IT). December 2016.
“Finite Souls and Infinite Self-Knowledge in Hegel’s Anthropology.” Conference: Infinite and Finite Cognition in German Philosophy. Fordham University (NY), April 2018.
“Self-confinement to a life of feeling: Hegel on mental alienation.” Conference: Il volo della nottola. L’eredità di Hegel con voce differente. Università La Sapienza, Roma (IT), September 2018.
“Substantial Ends and Choices Without a Will: The Quintessence of Tragic Drama According to Hegel.” Key-note Lecture at the Twenty-Fifth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America. Boston College (MA), October 2018.
“Pseudopolitics, Hypocrisy and the Law. Kantian and Hegelian Views on Foreign Interventionism.” NY German Idealism Workshops. New School of Social Research (NY), December 2018.
“Bourgeois Society and Its Discontents. J.-J. Rousseau on the Origins of Inequality.” Colloquium Series of the Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, November 2021.
“Seelenhaftes am Beispiel menschlichen Wahns.” Conference: Hegel als Denker der Lebenswelt: zu Hegels 250. Jubiläum. Universität Bochum-Hegel Archiv (Germany), July 2021.
“The De Anima in Hegel’s Anthropology.” Colloquium of Kronos Philosophical Journal, Lanckorona (PL), October 2021.
“Organic and Spiritual Illness: Hegel’s Theory of Madness.” Conference: Rediscovering Hegel’s Anthropology: Human Nature, Empirical Science, and the Claims of Reason. Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für den Europäischen Dialog. Villa Vigoni, Menaggio (IT), November 2021.
“The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s ‘Soul’.” NY German Idealism Workshops. Columbia U. (NY), February 2022.
“From Natural Mechanism to Spiritual Sentience.” Conference: Hegels Philosophie der Realität. Universität Heidelberg (Germany), March 2022.
“On the Political Subtext of Hegel’s ‘The Good and Conscience’.” Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy: 200 [+2] Years of the Philosophy of Right. Twenty-sixth Biennial Meeting of the Hegel Society of America. Belmont U., Nashville (TN), October 2022.
“Hegel on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.” Platonic Summer Seminar of the journal Kronos, Lanckorona (PL), August 2022.
“Hegel’s Treatise on the Soul: the Anthropology.” Colloquium at De Paul University (Chicago), March 2023.
“Le radici aristoteliche dell’anima in Hegel: Seele e psuchē a confronto.” Colloquium, at Università di Verona (IT), April 2023.
“Hylomorphism in Hegel’s Anthropology.” Conference: More than a Machine. On the Human Being in Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy. Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL), June 2023.
“On the ‘Infinite Recalcitrance’ of Property in Bourgeois Society.” Conference: Hegel and the Hegelian Tradition of Political Thought. University of Cambridge (UK), July 2023.
“What is Hegel’s Genius?” Conference: The Embodied Social Subject: Drive and Affect, Psychoanalysis and Hegel’s Thought. University of Oxford (UK), December 2023.
“Socrates’ daimonion and Hegel’s Gewissen.” NY German Idealism Workshops, Columbia University (NY), May 2024. Postponed because of illegal police activities.
“Psychosomatics in Hegel’s Anthropology.” Conference: Krankheit um 1800. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Germany), June 2024.
“Soul and Body as Doppelgänger.” Conference: Hegel’s Encyclopaedia Philosophy of Spirit. Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), July 2024.
“Is Hegel’s Gendering of Sex a Case of ‘Speculative Empiricism’?” Conference: Gendering Idealism. Università di Chieti (IT). November 2024.
“Deeds not Actions: Greek Tragic Drama Between Archaic and Classical Civilization.” Seminar Series Hegel’s Concept of Tragedy. An Inquiry into the Hegelian System. University of Coimbra (Portugal), 2025.
“Hegel and Alexander von Humboldt on Earthly Life.” Key-note at the International Hegel Conference “Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy,” Brazilian Hegel Society. Manaus (Brazil), December 2025.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Founding member of the Collegium Philosophiae Transatlanticum
Founding member of the History of Philosophy-East and West – Master’s Program, SBU
Past and/or current member of the following:
Executive Council, Hegel Society of America.
Scientific Committee, Amartya Sen Research Center, Paso Fundo, Brazil.
SUNY Press Editorial Board.
Editorial Panel, Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.
Editorial Board, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.
Vice President and President of the Hegel Society of America (2012-2018).
Referee for the following journals:
Rethinking Marxism
Continental Philosophy Review
Journal for the History of Philosophy
Owl of Minerva
Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History
Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain (Hegel Bulletin), UK
Hegel-Studien
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, ISR
The Review of Metaphysics
- Reviewer of book manuscripts for:
SUNY Press / Kluwer Academic Publishers / Palgrave-MacMillan / Anthem Press.