Adrian Johnston’s trilogy forges a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory.

Preface. Repeating Engels: Renewing the Cause of the Materialist Wager for the Twenty-First Century Introduction: Tales of the Endangered Dead: Historical Essays in an Underground Current of Naturalism Part I. The Voiding of Weak Nature: The Transcendental Materialist Kernels of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature Chapter 1. Revivifying Hegel: Breathing New Life into Naturphilosophie 2. From Bern to Jena: The Oldest Agenda of Hegelianism 3. The Self-Subversion of Modern Science: Scientific Reason and the Phenomenology of Spirit 4. Real Genesis: From the Natural to the Logical, and Back Again 5. The Dialectics of Impotent Nature: Substance and Subject in the System of the Mature Hegel Part II. From Scientific Socialism to Socialist Science: The Dialectics of Nature Then and Now 6. The Specter of Engels: The Obscured History of Marxism’s Philosophies of Science 7. This is orthodox Marxism: The Shared Materialist Weltanschauung of Marx and Engels 8. The Three Fathers of Naturdialektitk: Engels, Dietzgen, Lenin 9. Breaking and Bridging: Althusserian Syntheses of Historical and Dialectical Materialisms 10. Western Marxism’s Self-Critique: Lukács’s Final Ontological Verdict Part III. Negativity Mystical and Material: Privative Causality from Pico Della Mirandola to Lacan 11. The Privation of Science: Lacking Causes 12. There is absence, and then there are absences: Back to Kant, Forward to Lacan, and Onward 13. The Night of the Living World: The Missing Link of the Anorganic 14. Split Brain, Split Subject: Critically Approaching a Possible Lacanian Neuro-Psychoanalysis 15. The Myth of the Non-Given: The Positive Genesis of the Negative Part IV. Second Natures in Dappled Worlds: Neo-Hegelianism and Philosophy of Science in the Analytic Tradition 16. Lacan avec McDowell: The Unresolved Problem of Naturalism 17. From the Subjectivity of Transcendental Idealism to the Objectivity of Absolute Idealism: Returning to Kant and Hegel 18. Between Bald Naturalism and Rampant Platonism: Relaxing Into McDowell’s Third Way 19. More is      less: Psychoanalysis, Science, and the Decompletion of First Nature 20. Piebald Naturalism: Freedom in   Cartwright’s Image of Nature Postface. Points of Forced Freedom: Eleven (More) Theses on Materialism Notes Bibliography Index

“This is a remarkable work of epic proportions, in which Johnston describes the origins of what he calls ‘transcendental materialism’ in Hegel’s proposal that Spirit arises from Nature. Equally significant is the way Johnston enhances Hegel with the best insights from Marx, Engels, Dietzgen, Freud, Lenin, Lukács, Lacan, and Althusser, resulting in a very powerful and highly original ‘dialectical naturalism’ for our times.”—Andrew Cole, author of The Birth of Theory “Adrian Johnston’s sweeping project of Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism has hardly any match regarding its ambition, goal, and scope. With a sovereign ease, it crosses all the usual boundaries, taking its cue from both the continental and the analytical traditions, from psychoanalysis and neuroscience, from German idealism and scientific naturalism, from Marxism and poststructuralism. An essential read.”— Mladen Dolar, author of A Voice is Nothing More “Adrian Johnston’s trilogy Prolegomena To Any Future Materialism promises to achieve the most important confrontation between continental and analytic philosophy ever written. In this second volume, Johnston pursues the elaboration of a materialist yet nonreductionist theory of subjectivity. He discusses with Hegel, Marx, McDowell, Brandom, and so many others the 'underground current of naturalism' that haunts philosophy today and powerfully outlines a new definition of freedom” —Catherine Malabou, author of What Should We Do With Our Brain? “Adrian Johnston is one of the most original philosophers of his generation. This second tome of Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism will provide food for thought for many years to come. Who else can combine a defense of Engels's dialectic of nature with Hegel's materialist underside? Who else can leap from Soviet science to the philosophy of Alain Badiou, from Nancy Cartwright to the late Lukács, or from John McDowell to the canonical Althusser?” —Bruno Bosteels, author of Badiou and Politics   “Adrian Johnston is one of the most innovative and audacious continental philosophers writing today. Over the past decade, he has developed an original theoretical synthesis of remarkable sophistication. This volume is a significant addition to his already impressive body of work.”— Ray Brassier, author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction?