Preface. Tales of the endangered dead: historical essays in an underground current of naturalism
Introduction. Not-so-strange bedfellows: from Hegel and Marx to Lacan and McDowell
The voiding of weak nature: the transcendental materialist kernels of Hegel's philosophy of nature
Revivifying Hegel: breathing new life into Naturphilosophie
From Bern to Jena: the oldest agenda of Hegelianism
The self-subversion of modern science: scientific reason and the phenomenology of spirit
Real genesis: from the natural to the logical, and back again
The dialectics of impotent nature: substance and subject in the system of the mature Hegel
From scientific socialism to socialist science: the dialectics of nature then and now
The specter of Engels: the obscured history of Marxism's philosophies of science
This is orthodox Marxism: the shared materialist Weltanschauung of Marx and Engels
The three fathers of Naturdialektik: Engels, Dietzgen, Lenin
Breaking and bridging: Althusserian syntheses of historical and dialectical materialisms
Western Marxism's self-critique: Lukacs's final ontological verdict
Negativity mystical and material: privative causality from Pico della Mirandola to Lacan
The privation of science: lacking causes
There is absence, and then there are absences: back to Kant, forward to Lacan, and onward
The night of the living world: the missing link of the anorganic
Split brain, split subject: critically approaching a possible Lacanian neuro-psychoanalysis
The myth of the non-given: the positive genesis of the negative
Second natures in dappled worlds: neo-Hegelianism and the philosophy of science in the analytic tradition
Lacan with McDowell: the unresolved problem of naturalism
From the subjectivity of transcendental idealism to the objectivity of absolute idealism: returning to Kant and Hegel
Between bald naturalism and rampant Platonism: relaxing into McDowell's third way
More is less: psychoanalysis, science, and the decompletion of first nature
Piebald naturalism: freedom in Cartwright's image of nature.
