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| Translator's Acknowledgments | |
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| Translator's Introduction | |
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| First Course The Concept of Nature, 1956-1957 | |
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| Study of the Variations of the Concept of Nature | |
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| The "Finalist" Element in Aristotle and the Stoics | |
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| Nature as the Idea of an Entirely Exterior Being, Made of Exterior Parts, Exterior to Man, and to Itself, as a Pure Object | |
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| Origin of This Conception | |
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| The First Idea of Nature in Descartes | |
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| The Second Cartesian Inspiration | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Humanist Conception of Nature | |
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| The Ideas of Kant | |
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| The Double Meaning of the Copernican Revolution | |
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| The Critique of Judgment | |
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| The Ideas of Brunschvicg | |
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| The Notion of Space | |
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| The Notion of Time | |
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| The Concept of Causality | |
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| The Romantic Conception of Nature | |
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| The Ideas of Schelling | |
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| The Notion of the Principle of the World | |
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| Naturata | |
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| The Object of Schelling's Philosophy: The Subjective-Objective | |
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| The Method of Philosophy: The Intuition of Intuition | |
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| Art and Philosophy | |
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| The Schellingian Circle | |
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| The Value of the Contribution: Schelling and Hegel | |
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| The Ideas of Bergson | |
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| Schelling and Bergson | |
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| Nature as the Aseity of the Thing | |
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| Nature as Life | |
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| The Ontological Infrastructure of the Concept of Nature in Bergson: The Ideas of Being and Nothingness | |
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| Note on Bergson and Sartre | |
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| The Ideas of Husserl | |
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| The Role of the Body in the Position of Things | |
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| The Role of the Other | |
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| Originary Objects: The Experience of the Earth | |
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| Modern Science and Nature | |
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| Introduction: Science and Philosophy | |
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| Problems Posed by the Philosophical History of the Idea of Nature | |
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| Science and Philosophy | |
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| Classical and Modern Physics | |
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| Laplace's Conception | |
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| Quantum Mechanics | |
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| The Philosophical Significance of Quantum Mechanics | |
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| Notions of Space and Time | |
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| The Notion of Space | |
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| The Notion of Time | |
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| The Idea of Nature in Whitehead | |
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| Second Course The Concept of Nature, 1957-1958: Animality, the Human Body, and the Passage to Culture | |
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| General Introduction: Notes on the Cartesian Conceptions of Nature and Their Relations to Judeo-Christian Ontology | |
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| The Ontology of the Object | |
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| The Ontology of the Existent Being | |
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| Relations between These Two Modes of Thought | |
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| How the Oscillation of Cartesian Thought Is Related to the Postulates of Judeo-Christian Thought | |
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| The Concept of Naturalism | |
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| Humanism | |
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| Theism | |
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| Animality: The Tendencies of Modern Biology | |
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| The Notion of Behavior | |
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| The Perception of the Circle | |
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| The Perception of Movement | |
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| The Becoming of a Painting | |
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| The Perception of Causality in a Living Being | |
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| The Notions of Information and Communication | |
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| Models of Living Being | |
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| The Problem of Language | |
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| Animality: The Study of Animal Behavior | |
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| The Descriptions of J. von Uexkull | |
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| The Umwelt of Lower Animals: The Animal-Machines | |
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| Organized Lower Animals | |
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| The Umwelt of Higher Animals | |
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| Philosophical Interpretation of the Notion of Umwelt | |
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| The "Oriented Character" of Organic Activities according to E. S. Russell | |
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| The Behavior of the Organism as Physiology in Exterior Circuit | |
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| The Phenomena of Mimicry (Hardouin): Living Beings and Magic | |
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| Portmann's Study of Animal Appearance (Die Tiergestalt) | |
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| Lorenz's Study of Instinct: The Passage from Instinct to Symbolism | |
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| Third Course The Concept of Nature, 1959-1960: Nature and Logos: The Human Body | |
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| Introduction: Resumption of the Studies on Nature | |
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| Place of These Studies in Philosophy: Philosophy and Knowledge of Nature | |
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| Place of the Human Body in Our Study of Nature | |
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| First Sketch | |
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| Second Sketch | |
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| The Animal Body | |
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| The Libidinal Body and Intercorporeity | |
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| The Body and Symbolism | |
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| [Ontology] | |
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| Third Sketch: The Human Body | |
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| The Body as Animal of Perceptions | |
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| The Libidinal Body and Intercorporeity | |
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| The Body and Symbolism | |
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| Fourth Sketch: Two Preliminary Studies | |
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| Ontogenesis: Driesch's Analysis | |
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| Phylogenesis | |
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| Fifth Sketch | |
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| The Renaissance and Metamorphosis of Darwinism | |
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| Idealism | |
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| Sixth Sketch | |
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| Descriptions of Morphology | |
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| Philosophy: Dacque's Kantian Position | |
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| Statistical Evolution | |
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| Discussion and Conclusion | |
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| Seventh Sketch: Man and Evolution: The Human Body | |
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| Eighth Sketch: The Human Body | |
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| Esthesiology | |
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| The Libidinal Body | |
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| Libido | |