Emanuele Coccia: 8 books

Book cover of The Life of Plants

The Life of Plants

A Metaphysics of Mixture

by Emanuele Coccia
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us....
Book cover of La vita sensibile
by Emanuele, Coccia
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2012

La sensibilità marca profondamente la nostra esistenza: piene di forme sensibili sono la vita diurna così come quella che ci regalano i sogni notturni, la musica che ascoltiamo, gli affetti che proviamo e i sapori che gustiamo. Ma la sensibilità è anche facoltà attiva: parlando, disegnando, modificando...
Book cover of Sensible Life

Sensible Life

A Micro-ontology of the Image

by Emanuele Coccia
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible...
Book cover of Goods

Goods

Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image

by Emanuele Coccia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018

Coccia is a leading younger figure in European thought, working between contemporary art and culture and a vast modern and premodern body of philosophical work.
Book cover of The Transitory Museum
by Emanuele Coccia, Donatien Grau
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019

Throughout modernity there has been a clear divide between art and commerce. Objects could either be consumed as commerce or contemplated as art. Today, as museums are facing increasing financial pressure and as stores have become inventive locations for new modes of display, this clear divide has...
Book cover of La vita delle piante

La vita delle piante

Metafisica della mescolanza

by Emanuele, Coccia
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2018

Abbiamo molto da imparare, dalla vita vegetale. Abbiamo adorato dèi antropomorfi e fatto per millenni degli animali l’oggetto del nostro culto. Eppure la forza cosmogonica più importante sul nostro pianeta sono le piante: sono loro le nostre ultime divinità. Sono loro ad aver prodotto...
Book cover of Angeli

Angeli

Ebraismo Cristianesimo Islam

by Giorgio Agamben, Emanuele Coccia
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2011

Teologi e filosofi, poeti e pittori non hanno mai cessato di interrogarsi sulla natura degli angeli. La loro immagine insieme splendida ed estenuata, pensierosa e feroce è penetrata così profondamente, oltre che nelle preghiere e nelle liturgie quotidiane dell'occidente, nella filosofia, nella letteratura,...
Book cover of Il bene nelle cose

Il bene nelle cose

La pubblicità come discorso morale

by Emanuele, Coccia
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 6, 2014

Merce, l’ultimo nome del Bene
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