Why Only Art Can Save Us

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.

Santiago Zabala declara ca intr-o epoca in care cea mai mare urgenta este absenta urgentei, capacitatea artei contemporane de a crea noi realitati este fundamentala pentru democratie. El avanseaza o noua estetica care se bazeaza pe distinctia lui Martin Heidegger intre operele de arta care ne salveaza de urgenta si cele care sunt salvatori in urgenta.