Contents

pp v-vi

Dedication

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction: The Problem of a Philosophical Rendering of Nature and Hegel’s Philosophy of the Real

pp 1-12

Part I - ‘Gleaming leprosy in the sky’

pp 13-14

1 - The ‘Non-Whole’ of Hegelian Nature: Extrinsicality and the Problems of Sickness and Death

pp 15-31

2 - The Instability of Space-Time and the Contingency of Necessity

pp 32-54

3 - The Problem of Nature’s Spurious Infinite within the Register of Animal Life

pp 55-63

4 - Assimilation and the Problems of Sex, Violence, and Sickness Unto Death

pp 64-86

Part II - Spirit’s Birth from within the Bio-Material World

pp 87-88

5 - The Other Hegel: The Anthropology and Spirit’s Birth from within the Bio-Material World

pp 89-107

6 - Embodiment: Spirit, Material–Maternal Dependence, and the Problem of the in Utero

pp 108-118

7 - The Nightmare of Reason and Regression into the Night of the World

pp 119-139

8 - Treatment as (re-)Habituation: From Psychopathology to (re-)Actualised Subjectivity

pp 140-156

Part III - The Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment

pp 157-158

9 - An Introduction to the Problem of Surplus Repressive Punishment

pp 159-167

10 - Abstract Right: Natural Immediacy within the Matrices of Personhood

pp 168-188

11 - Crime, the Negation of Right, and the Problem of European Colonial Consciousness

pp 189-211

12 - Surplus Repressive Punishment and Spirit’s Regressive (de-)Actualisation

pp 212-240

Conclusion: Freedom within Two Natures, or, the Nature– Spirit Dialectic in the Final System

pp 241-255

Bibliography

pp 256-266

Index

pp 267-269