The Distortion of Nature's Image by Gerber, Damian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction

Ecology and Critical Theory On Some Limitations of Contemporary Nature Ontologies Reification and the Historical Context of Nature Philosophy The Dialectic of the Nature-Concept The Concept of Dialectical Naturalism

The Becoming of Nature Epistemology and the Bourgeois Image of Nature The Kantian “Block” and the Distancing of Reason from Nature An Alternative Perspective on Kant: Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters Fichte’s Nature-Concept as the Non-Ego “The Struggle of Spirit with Itself” Hegel’s Critique of the Concept of Natural Law The Representation of Nature as Reification Hegel’s Doctrine of the Notion The Anti-Naturalism of “Spirit” and the Limits of Hegel’s Idealism Feuerbachian Interlude

Chapter Two Nature in Marx and Anarchism

Chapter Three Recovering a Dialectical Naturalism

The Basis of a Dialectical Naturalism Precursory Models of Dialectical Naturalism

Bloch’s Notion of “Technological Contact” Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology

The Critique of Neo-Kantian Philosophy Recovering Reason and the Bookchin-Eckersley Debate on Ecological Ethics Ecologizing the Dialectic

The Nature-Concept and the Anthropology of Hierarchy

Toward a Communalist Image of Nature

Epilogue Appendix Theses on Communalism Notes Bibliography Index Back Cover