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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 and signs that we can fulfill if we pay attention. -- María Pía Lara, author of <i>The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization</i> 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 Žižek, author of <i>Zero Point</i>

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Santiago Zabala is ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the author of a number of books, including Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (2017) and, with Gianni Vattimo, Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx (2011), both published by Columbia University Press. Zabala has also written opinion articles for publications including the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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