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Proposing here a new relational determination between social philosophy and its object, Martin Saar presents in this article, organised as a nexus of concepts, the theoretical framework through which to formulate a joint analysis of the various meanings of “the social”, here differentiated in terms of different relations: of “order”, “of practices”, of “subjects”. These relations correspond to the three, relatively specific, forms of power, whose possibilities of alteration and transformation link the critical orientation of social philosophy to the project of an emancipatory politics.