What Is Social Philosophy

Since Max Horkheimer's formative essays were written almost 100 years ago, »social philosophy« has been understood as a discipline that does not just deliver an examination of one philosophical object of study among others. Instead it implies a specific, critical approach to contemporary society. In this collection of programmatic essays, Martin Saar interrogates the deployment, the gestures, the procedures, and the fundamental concepts of such a critical analysis of society. He sketches out the contours of a mode of thought that is invested in delivering incisive analyses of particular historical moments, and which does not shy away from the factual struggles and realities of the political and social world around us.