Can societies fall ill? Can institutions die, or social practices degenerate? Must social norms be embodied? To what extent is social action habitual? Is social life part of nature or does it transcend it? This book explores the meaning and many facets of naturalism in social philosophy. It investigates the consequences of concepts such as “second nature” and “forms of life” for social philosophy. It analyses the ways in which social action, gender, work and morality are embodied. It surveys the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism. It provides students and experts of social philosophy with both an overview and critical analyses of the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy from Hume and Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory.Contributors: Louis Carré, Fabian Freyenhagen, Martin Hartmann, Axel Honneth, Thomas Khurana, Steven Levine, Sabrina Lovibond, Arvi Särkelä, Barbara Stiegler, Mariana Teixeira, Italo Testa
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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" analyse the ways in which social action, gender, work and morality and embodied and surveys the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism.
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Contemporary PerspectivesChapter 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 WorkChapter 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 TherapyChapter 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 FreyenhagenIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors
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If often denied and repressed, the Anthropocene has returned naturalism to the center of the possibility of social philosophy. In this splendid and timely series of essays, the classical defenders of naturalism in social theory—from Hegel and Nietzsche through to Dewey, Beauvoir, Wittgenstein, Adorno and Horkheimer—are provided with emphatic elaboration and defense. Singularly and collectively, these essays demonstrate the defining characteristics of the kind of naturalism necessary for a Critical Theory of society today.
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ISBN
9781538174920
Publisert
2023-01-26
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Rowman & Littlefield
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576 gr
Høyde
237 mm
Bredde
158 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
284

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Martin Hartmann is professor of Philosophy at the University of Lucerne. 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. His next book, The Feeling of Inequality: On Empathy, Empathy Gulfs, and the Political Psychology of Democracy, will be published with Oxford University Press.

Arvi Särkelä is Lecturer of Practical Philosophy at the University of Lucerne and 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 (Klostermann, 2018) and co-editor of John Dewey, Sozialphilosophie (with Axel Honneth, Suhrkamp, 2019), John Dewey and Social Criticism (with Federica Gregoratto and Just Serrano, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2017) and Pathologies of Recognition (with Arto Laitinen, Studies in Social and Political Thought, 2015).