From the contents: Re-animations: instinct and civility after the ends of man and nature (Adrian J. Ivakhiv). - Democracy and itst discontent: Tocqueville and Baudrillard on the nature of America (Marco Diani). - Custom is our nature: Cavell and Wittgenstein versus Freud (Ursula Gorocke). - Looking forward/looking back: Thomas Cole and the belated construction of nature (Bernd Herzogenrath)."