Emanuele Coccia Knihy

We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don't share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.

Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness- not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection for any one of us.

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. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life. From this standpoint, we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Since our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone, life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words, life exists only insofar as it consumes other life, removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation. In contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms, Coccia's account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big, offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.

This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.

Emanuele Coccia verbindet Philosophie, Anthropologie und Botanik zur ersten modernen Philosophie der Pflanzen.

Wenn wir über das Leben und dessen Ursprünge sprechen, denken wir an Menschen oder Tiere. Und die Pflanzen? Sie sind nur Gegenstand der Botanik, in der Philosophie spielen sie seit Aristoteles‘ Vorstellung eines vegetativen Seelenvermögens keine Rolle mehr. Kaum zu glauben, denn sie sind die eigentlichen Erschaffer der Welt. Sie können sich nicht bewegen und sind doch geniale Handwerker, sie vermitteln zwischen Erde und Sonne und besitzen verborgene zweite Körper im Boden. Emanuele Coccia gibt dem Leser ein neues Bewusstsein für die faszinierende Schönheit der Natur. Denn Pflanzen sind mehr als blühender Zufall, sie sind Grundlage allen Lebens und damit unentbehrlich für unser Wissen über uns.

Wie das Zuhause unsere Psyche beeinflusst. »Ein aufschlussreiches Buch, das die Räume erhellt und verstehen lässt, was sie bedeuten.« la Repubblica Drei Zimmer, Küche, Bad – ist damit erklärt, was ein Zuhause ist? Keineswegs, beweist Emanuele Coccia in seiner „Philosophie des Wohnens“. Obwohl die Philosophie von jeher eine besondere Beziehung zur Stadt hatte, ging es ihr bislang kaum um Häuser und Wohnungen. Dabei spielt das Zuhause für das menschliche Glück eine entscheidende Rolle. Die Aufteilung der Räume spiegelt und verstärkt soziale und kulturelle Ungleichheiten. Emanuele Coccia zeigt, wie Wohnzimmer, Flur und Küche die Psyche prägen. Meisterhaft verknüpft er das Leben zwischen vier Wänden mit der ökologisch drängenden Frage, wie der Mensch die Welt zu seinem Zuhause macht.

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows and doorways have guided our relationships with others and with ourselves. They reflect and reinforce social inequalities; they allow us to celebrate and cherish those we love. They are the places of return that allow us to venture out into the world. In this intimate, elegantly argued account, Coccia shows how the architecture of home has shaped, and continues to shape, our psyches and our societies, before then masterfully leading us towards a more creative, ecological way of dwelling in the world.

Emanuele Coccia untersucht in seinem Essay die zentrale Rolle der Sinne im menschlichen Leben und deren lange Vernachlässigung in der Philosophie. Er entwickelt eine Philosophie des Sinnlichen, die zeigt, wie unsere Sinne uns mit der Welt verbinden und sie uns beeinflussen, inspiriert von Denkern wie Aristoteles und Merleau-Ponty.