Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Preface
Introduction
Part I The Philosophy of Nature
Chapter 1 Spinoza: Founder of Modern Naturalism
Chapter 2 Hume: The Experimental Method and the Science of Man
Chapter 3 Kant: Copernican Turn--Nature, Reason, and Freedom
Chapter 4 Hegel: Nature and Geist
Part II The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Prologue
Chapter 5 Marx: The Transaction of Nature and Social Man
Chapter 6 Nietzsche: Nature and the Affirmation of Life
Chapter 7 Freud: Human Nature, Psychic Reality, and Cosmological Speculation
Coda
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References