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

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.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Emergency of Aesthetics
2. Emergency Through Art
3. Emergency Aesthetics
Afterword
Notes
Index

About the author

Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat (Columbia, 2008); The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics (Columbia, 2009); and (with Gianni Vattimo) Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx (Columbia, 2011), and the editor of several of Vattimo's books, including Nihilism and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, and Law (2004); The Future of Religion (2005, with Richard Rorty); and Art's Claim to Truth (2008), all from Columbia University Press. He also writes opinion articles for publications including the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Santiago Zabala has written a profound and important work that responds to some of the most demanding issues of our day.

Product details

• Authors: Santiago Zabala, Zabala Santiago
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780231183499
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18349-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 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