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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 SärkeläPART 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 HonnethChapter 3: The Stage of Difference: On the Second Nature of Civil Society in Kant and Hegel,
Thomas KhuranaChapter 4: 1880: First Philosophical Critique of Adaptationism: Nietzsche, Reader of Herbert Spencer,
Barbara StieglerChapter 5: Experimentalism, Naturalism, and the Grounds of Social Critique,
Steven LevineChapter 6: From Naturalism to Social Vitalism: Revisiting the Durkheim-Bergson Debate on Moral Obligations,
Louis CarréPART II: Embodiment and Social Life: Action, Gender, and Work
Chapter 7: The Dual Mode of Social Interaction: Habit, Embodied Cognition, and Social Action,
Italo TestaChapter 8: Sex, Gender, and Ambiguity: Beauvoir on the Dilaceration of Lived Experience,
Mariana TeixeiraChapter 9: The Naturalist Presuppositions of the focus on work and economy in Dewey's Social Philosophy,
Emmanuel RenaultPART 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 SärkeläChapter 11: 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy,
Sabina LovibondChapter 12: Objective reason, ethical naturalism, and social pathology: The case of Horkheimer and Adorno,
Fabian FreyenhagenIndex
About the Editors and Contributors
About the author
Martin Hartmann is professor of philosophy at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He focuses on political philosophy, social philosophy, philosophy of trust, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of emotions. He has published books on trust, John Dewey, the philosophy of emotions and articles on Critical Theory, pragmatism, trust, David Hume, Adam Smith, and the philosophy of emotions.
Arvi Särkelä is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He focuses on social philosophy, philosophy of culture, philosophy of nature, and the history of philosophy. He has published many articles on Adorno, Dewey, Hegel, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. He is the author of the book
Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben: Selbsttransformative Praxis nach Hegel und Dewey and co-editor of John Dewey,
Sozialphilosophie (with Axel Honneth),
John Dewey and Social Criticism (with Federica Gregoratto and Just Serrano) and
Pathologies of Recognition (with Arto Laitinen).
