ABSTRACT
The philosophical discussion of normativity is often characterized by the frontlines between phenomenology and naturalism, which themselves can be mapped, in a shorthand way, onto the tense relationship between the continental and analytic traditions. Many contemporary philosophical positions that adopt a largely naturalistic stance have strongly been influenced by what continues to be portrayed as a "continental" tradition from Spinoza via Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to Friedrich Nietzsche and beyond. Rosi Braidotti's account highlights the political pitfalls of a posthumanist ethics that pays little heed to the problem of normativity and even less attention to questions of justification. For any posthumanist or new materialist ethics, the naturalistic fallacy proves fatal. In contrast to the posthumanist ethical stance, traditional forms of philosophical naturalism and mainstream political theory of the Kantian kind have delivered accounts of normativity that, albeit in very different ways, seek to avoid the trap of deriving norms from nature.
