Martin Saar

Martin Saar is professor of Social Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main.

PUBLICATIONS

Year of Publication: 2026

Martin Saar , Frieder VogelmannYear of Publication: 2026

The Conditions of Our Existence

How do we view Michel Foucault today? How might we assess the impact of his widely read and much-criticised work in the present day? While his oeuvre is viewed as canonical for the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences, his thought is regularly blamed with leading to some of the irrational aberrations and relativist dead ends of contemporary thought.

In their astute...

Year of Publication: 2025

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...

Year of Publication: 2013

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...