Santiago Zabala

Santiago Zabala
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental
Main interests	Hermeneutics philosophy of religion ontology aesthetics political philosophy
Influences Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty

Santiago Zabala (born 1975) is a European philosopher (raised in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva) and ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University.

Career

He obtained his M.A. (with a thesis on Ernst Tugendhat under the supervision of Gianni Vattimo) at University of Turin and his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome.

In 2007 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship by Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the years 2008/2009 at the University of Potsdam. After spending the spring semester of 2010 as a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, Zabala has been appointed ICREA Research Professor (with tenure), first, at the University of Barcelona and, as of 2015, at the Pompeu Fabra University, where he currently teaches contemporary philosophy and supervises MA and Ph.D. theses. He is known for his research on hermeneutics, ontology, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of religion. His books have been translated into several languages and his articles have been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera America,The New York Times, Boston Review, La Maleta, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Critics

According to Hamid Dabashi "European thinkers like Žižek and Zabala, important and insightful as they are in their own immediate circles, are out of touch with these realities, and to the degree that they are they cannot come to terms with their unfolding particularities in terms immediate to their idiomaticities. For them "Philosophy" is a mental gymnastics performed with the received particulars of European philosophy in its postmodern or poststructuralist registers – exciting and productive to the degree that they can be." Zabala's response to Dabashi in Al-Jazeera

Also Brian Leiter criticized Zabala on his blog (Leiter Reports). Zabala's response to Leiter on Columbia University Press Blog.

Bibliography

Author:

• The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy. A Study of E. Tugendhat (2008). New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into Italian.
• The Remains of Being (2009). New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into Chinese and Spanish.
• Hermeneutic Communism (2011, coauthored with G. Vattimo) New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Editor

• Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo, The Future of Religion, edited by S. Zabala, (2005) New York: Columbia University Press. Translated in 16 languages.
• Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation, edited by S. Zabala, (2004) New York: Columbia University Press. Translated in 6 languages.
• Gianni Vattimo, Art's Claim to Truth, edited by S. Zabala (2008) New York: Columbia University Press.
• Weakening Philosophy, edited by S. Zabala (2007) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Translated into Spanish and Italian.
• Consequences of Hermeneutics (2010, co-edited with Jeff Malpas) Northwestern University Press.
• Being Shaken, (2014, co-edited with M. Marder) Palgrave.
• The Emergency of Philosophy, edited by S. Zabala. Special Issue of Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 59, Issue 4 (Fall 2015). With contributions from Gianni Vattimo, Adrian Parr, Noreen Khawaj, Arne de Boever, Frédéric Neyrat, Bonnie Honig, Diego Rosselo, Silvia Mazzini, Richard Polt, Dorthe Jørgensen., and S. Zabala.

See also

• Deconstruction and religion
• Global Center for Advanced Studies

External links

• Zabala's Personal Website
• Santiago Zabala at the Pompeu Fabra University
• ICREA
• E-International Relations interview with Santiago Zabala
• Los Angeles Review of Books interview with Santiago Zabala