ABSTRACT. Starting from the book Unity and Aspect (2018), this interview offers a window into Haas’s efforts to rethink metaphysics and the history of philosophy. As the interview shows, expanding our conception of being beyond the metaphysics of presence and absence is bound to have implications for many areas of central importance for the sciences and the humanities: from humour to ethics/politics, and from the past to the climate crisis, and for our self-understanding (as beings who illuminate, or phos). Indeed, recognising being as implication – that which is neither present nor absent – ‘shakes the very ground of the history of philosophy – and the grounding presuppositions of the history of the natural and human sciences and the arts.’

Keywords: being; metaphysics; implication; social sciences; humanities; phos

How to cite: Haas, A., & Flores, R. (2025). ‘We need an earthquake’: An interview with Andrew Haas. Knowledge Cultures, 13(1), 175-189. doi: 10.22381/kc13120259

Received December 3, 2024 • Received in revised form February 5, 2025
Accepted April 16, 2025 • Available online May 1, 2025