Signs from the Future

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With Signs from the Future, Santiago Zabala has issued his own clarion call to address the underlying cause of the hydra-headed crises facing the world today-by reviving the dying art of thinking. * LA Review of Books * Philosophy has often warned us-about God, science, and the very limits of thought. This profoundly original book recasts philosophy as a warning and asks the urgent question: Why don't we listen? Erudite and provocative, it challenges the reader to hear philosophy anew. Essential reading -- Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, author of <i>Communism After Deleuze</i> Santiago Zabala achieves in Signs from the Future what only the best thinkers occasionally do: he effortlessly unites the most pressing concerns of our moments (global warming, pandemic, social crises...) with the reflection of "eternal" questions (reality oriented towards future, the nature of thinking). This is why his book is interesting in the most basic sense of the term of "inter-esse": throwing us into the heart of being. It is a book for everybody who has the courage to think today. -- Slavoj Zizek, author of <i>Zero Point</i> In his philosophy of warnings, Santiago Zabala analyzes the difference between temporality and history to craft warnings as genuine signs of possible futures. It invites us to discard banal signals in favor of meaningful signs that mark promises and hopes that we can fulfill if we pay attention. -- Maria Pia Lara, author of <i>The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization</i>