Saul Tobias

Saul Tobias received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2005, where he has also held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the Institute of Liberal Arts. He was a DAAD Scholar in Berlin, Germany in 2002-3, and has studied in South Africa and the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests include social and political philosophy, European intellectual history, and theories of interdisciplinarity.

Tobias is currently completing a project on Nietzsche and liberalism which explores the significance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought for contemporary political theory. He is also working on a study of interdisciplinarity in the context of changing views concerning the scientific and cultural role of the University.

Selected publications:

“Hegel and the Politics of Recognition,” The Owl of Minerva. Special Issue on the 200th Anniversary of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, 38:1-2 (2007): 101-128

“Ethics and Interdisciplinarity: Nietzsche as Cultural Theorist,” InterCulture, 3:1 (2006): 1-18

 “Foucault on Freedom and Capabilities,” Theory, Culture & Society, 22:4 (2005): 65-85.

“Fragments of Justice: Deconstruction and the Literature of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Oxford Literary Review, 25 (2004): 321-340   

“The Ethical Implications of Pain in Wittgenstein’s Thought,” Philosophical Writings, 23 (2003): 3-21 

“Philosophy in the Filigree of Power: the Limits of Immanent Critique,” Arcadia, 33:1 (1998): 225-232

Contact: saul.tobias@temple.edu