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This book explores the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy, investigating the consequences of concepts such as second nature and forms of life. It analyses the ways in which social action, gender, work and morality are embodied and surveys the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism.
List of contents
Contemporary Perspectives
Chapter 1: Naturalism and Social Philosophy: An Introduction, Martin Hartmann and Arvi Särkelä
PART I: Second Nature and Forms of Life: Naturalistic Key Concepts in Social Philosophy
Chapter 2: Second Nature: The Profound Depths of a Philosophical Key Term, Axel Honneth
Chapter 3: The Stage of Difference: On the Second Nature of Civil Society in Kant and Hegel, Thomas Khurana
Chapter 4: 1880: First Philosophical Critique of Adaptationism: Nietzsche, Reader of Herbert Spencer, Barbara Stiegler
Chapter 5: Experimentalism, Naturalism, and the Grounds of Social Critique, Steven Levine
Chapter 6: From Naturalism to Social Vitalism: Revisiting the Durkheim-Bergson Debate on Moral Obligations, Louis Carré
PART II: Embodiment and Social Life: Action, Gender, and Work
Chapter 7: The Dual Mode of Social Interaction: Habit, Embodied Cognition, and Social Action, Italo Testa
Chapter 8: Sex, Gender, and Ambiguity: Beauvoir on the Dilaceration of Lived Experience, Mariana Teixeira
Chapter 9: The Naturalist Presuppositions of the focus on work and economy in Dewey's Social Philosophy, Emmanuel Renault
PART III: Naturalism and Social Criticism: Social Pathology and Philosophical Therapy
Chapter 10: The (Meta)Physician of Culture: Early Nietzsche's Disclosing Critique of Forms of Life, Arvi Särkelä
Chapter 11: 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy, Sabina Lovibond
Chapter 12: Objective reason, ethical naturalism, and social pathology: The case of Horkheimer and Adorno, Fabian Freyenhagen
Index
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Edited by Martin Hartmann and Arvi Särkelä
