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