Did any one asked what art saves us from? Or what is the threat? From: Philosophy in Europe [mailto:PHILOS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Siebers Sent: 30 March 2015 17:02 To: PHILOS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Middlesex University - Only Art can Save Us - Lecture by Santiago Zabala 14 April Perspectives in Religion Research Network - Guest Lecture Santiago Zabala Only Art can save us. Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency. Tuesday 14 April, 16:00-18:00 Middlesex University Hendon Campus, College Building C204 Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. He is the author of The Remains of Being (2009), The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy (2008), and co-author with G. Vattimo of Hermeneutic Communism (2011). He edited G. Vattimo's Art's Claim to Truth (2008) and Nihilism and Emancipation (2004), Richard Rorty and G. Vattimo's The Future of Religion (2005), and Weakening Philosophy (2007) with contributions from Charles Taylor, Jean-Luc Nancy, Umberto Eco, Richard Rorty, Jack Miles, Fernando Savater, Nancy Frankenberry, Rüdiger Bubner, James Risser, Manfred Frank, G. Vattimo and others. With Jeff Malpas he has co-edited Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years after Truth and Method (2010) and with M. Marder Being Shaken: Ontology and the Event (Palgrave, 2014). Dr Johan Siebers | Religious Studies | Middlesex University London | www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/johan-isaac-siebers.aspx<http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/staffdirectory/johan-isaac-siebers.aspx> --Banality is counter-revolution. (Isaac Babel) http://emailcharter.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that Middlesex University's preferred way of receiving all correspondence is via email in line with our Environmental Policy. All incoming post to Middlesex University is opened and scanned by our digital document handler, CDS, and then emailed to the recipient. If you do not want your correspondence to Middlesex University processed in this way please email the recipient directly. Parcels, couriered items and recorded delivery items will not be opened or scanned by CDS. There are items which are "exceptions" which will be opened by CDS but will not be scanned a full list of these can be obtained by contacting the University. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html and http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.region.europe. Current posts are also available via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL. Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html. To sign off the list send a blank message to philos-l-unsubscribe-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:philos-l-unsubscribe-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.