What Is Social Philosophy
What Is Social Philosophy / Was ist Sozialphilosophie?
A study that hews closely to the realities of our social and political world
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...
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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.
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The Immanence of Power
Every age discovers and interprets its classics of philosophy anew; therefore, the current acute interest in the work of the Dutch reationalist Baruch de Spinoza says at least as much about the present as it does about the early modern period. For an important alternative, one that has not yet been exhausted, to the better known paths into modernity in terms of the history of ideas becomes...