Why Only Art Can Save Us - Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency

Klappentext Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency! contemporary art's ability to create new realities is fundamental to democracy. He advances a new aesthetics that draws on Martin Heidegger's distinction between works of art that rescue us from emergency and those that are rescuers into emergency.

Product details

• Authors: Santiago Zabala, Zabala Santiago
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780231183482
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18348-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, ART / Art & Politics, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, History of art / art & design styles, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Politics and government, Translation and interpretation, The arts: general topics