A hermeneutical exploration of freedom through existence, interpretation, and emergencies.
Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University.
"This is a much-needed path-breaking book, systematically showing
how widespread appeals to facts, whether pure or alternative, are
not only yet another claim to power, but also a new and dangerous
recall to order. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the
possibility of freedom and survival in our time, this book fully
illustrates the strength of Zabala's philosophy and its potential
for emancipation." Chiara Bottici, author of A Philosophy of
Political Myth and Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and
the Imaginary
"Timey and engagingly written, Being at Large advances a thesis
developed in Zabala's previous work, namely, that we live in times
of a dominant "absence of emergency," despite being surrounded by
and immersed in emergency. This means that a long list of ongoing
emergencies - including climate change, military conflicts, refugee
movements, homelessness, rising inequality, the manipulation of
personal information and, of course, pandemics such as the spread
of COVID-19 - are framed by those in power as somehow normal,
leading Zabala to the Heideggerian notion that "the only emergency
is the lack of a sense of emergency."" Public Seminar
"[Being at Large] is an invitation to take an existential stand for
freedom. Zabala cannot tell anyone what to do, but he can invite
participation in the interpretive openness of Being at large, and
from that freedom one can take an existential stand." Hong Kong
Review of Books
“Zabala … manages, in this erudite book, to walk readers through a
genealogy of interpretation as an “active practice” (with detailed
attention to Augustine and Luther), and to say a great deal about
metaphysics and ontology. Moreover, all thinkers will find in
Zabala’s theory of ‘being at large’ a call to action, to
intellectual work as an urgent task for our times.” Religious
Studies Review
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