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Zabala, Santiago
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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Santiago Zabala is an EU citizen born in 1975. He was raised in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva. He first studied philosophy at the University of Turin where in 2002 he obtained his M.A. (with a thesis under the supervision of Gianni Vattimo) and in 2006 his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome. In November 2007 he was awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship by Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the years 2008/2009. After spending the Spring semester of 2010 as a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University Zabala has been appointed ICREA Research Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona where he currently teaches and is the PI of the Research Group: Deconstruction and Hermeneutics. He is the author of numerous authored and edited books and opinion articles for El Pais, NYT, and Al-Jazeera.
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Research Interests
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Zabala’s research concentrates in three areas each of which have generated several authored and edited books: philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. All these three areas are studied following the hermeneutic principle according to which truth is not an objective goal that philosophy must submit to, but rather the effect of interpretation. Following the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur and Richard Rorty Zabala’s has emphasized the ontological nature of hermeneutics in order to demonstrate the danger of truth impositions for religious and political emancipation.
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KeyWords
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Philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy
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