| Introduction | |
| Pt. I | Knowledge and Social Practice | |
| 1 | The Construction of Knowledge | 3 |
| 2 | Different Worlds, History, and Progress | 17 |
| Pt. II | Language, Truth, and Modes of Representation | |
| 3 | Dialogue as Praxis: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Historical Epistemology, and Truth | 33 |
| 4 | A Distinction Too Few or Too Many? A Vindication of the Analytic vs. Synthetic Distinction | 47 |
| 5 | Aspects, Object, and Representations | 75 |
| 6 | Representation in Art and Science | 91 |
| Pt. III | Science and the Construction of Knowledge | |
| 7 | The Idea of Quantity at the Origin of the Legitimacy of Mathematization in Physics | 109 |
| 8 | "Critical Realism": Wartofsky and Bhaskar | 137 |
| Pt. IV | Art in Social Context | |
| 9 | Art as Reflective Praxis: On Marx Wartofsky's Historical Materialist Aesthetics | 153 |
| 10 | A Sketch of Historical Aesthetics | 167 |
| 11 | Reflection and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Marx Wartofsky | 181 |
| 12 | Photography and Vision | 187 |
| 13 | Why Is Architecture a "Social" Art? | 193 |
| Pt. V | Constructivism, Praxis, and Social Philosophy | |
| 14 | The Marxian Concept of Praxis | 207 |
| 15 | Marx, the Jewish Question, and the Invention of the Proletariat | 215 |
| 16 | Practiced Economies: From Marx to Marx | 229 |
| 17 | The Mind's Eye and the Hand's Brain: On Wartofsky's Philosophy of Medicine | 243 |
| Index | 259 |
| About the Contributors | 269 |