The vicissitudes of nature: from Spinoza to Freud

Abstract

Cover -- Half-title page -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Philosophy of Nature -- 1 Spinoza: Founder of Modern Naturalism -- 2 Hume: The Experimental Method and the Science of Man -- 3 Kant: Copernican Turn -- Nature, Reason, and Freedom -- 4 Hegel: Nature and Geist -- Part II The Hermeneutics of Suspicion -- Prologue -- 5 Marx: The Transaction of Nature and Social Man -- 6 Nietzsche: Nature and the Affirmation of Life -- 7 Freud: Human Nature, Psychic Reality, and Cosmological Speculation -- Coda -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- General Index.