Contemporary Perspectives Chapter 1: Naturalism and Social Philosophy: An Introduction, Martin Hartmann and Arvi Särkelä PART 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 Honneth Chapter 3: The Stage of Difference: On the Second Nature of Civil Society in Kant and Hegel, Thomas Khurana Chapter 4: 1880: First Philosophical Critique of Adaptationism: Nietzsche, Reader of Herbert Spencer, Barbara Stiegler Chapter 5: Experimentalism, Naturalism, and the Grounds of Social Critique, Steven Levine Chapter 6: From Naturalism to Social Vitalism: Revisiting the Durkheim-Bergson Debate on Moral Obligations, Louis Carré PART II: Embodiment and Social Life: Action, Gender, and Work Chapter 7: The Dual Mode of Social Interaction: Habit, Embodied Cognition, and Social Action, Italo Testa Chapter 8: Sex, Gender, and Ambiguity: Beauvoir on the Dilaceration of Lived Experience, Mariana Teixeira Chapter 9: The Naturalist Presuppositions of the focus on work and economy in Dewey's Social Philosophy, Emmanuel Renault PART III: Naturalism and Social Criticism: Social Pathology and Philosophical Therapy Chapter 10: The (Meta)Physician of Culture: Early Nietzsche's Disclosing Critique of Forms of Life, Arvi Särkelä Chapter 11: 'The Sickness of a Time': Social Pathology and Therapeutic Philosophy, Sabina Lovibond Chapter 12: Objective reason, ethical naturalism, and social pathology: The case of Horkheimer and Adorno, Fabian Freyenhagen Index About the Editors and Contributors.