Sensible Life - Emanuele Coccia

Sensible Life

A Micro-ontology of the Image

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
126 Seiten
2016
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-6741-5 (ISBN)
87,25 inkl. MwSt
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.
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 life.

This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, theology, and politics. Coccia begins by defining the ontological status of images. Not just an internal modification of our consciousness, an image has an intermediate ontological status that differs from that of objects or subjects. The book’s second part explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion, and biological facts like growth and generation. Our life, Coccia argues, is the life of images.

Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the EHESS in Paris. He is the author of Sensible Life: A Micro-Ontology of the Image. With Giorgio Agamben, he is editor of a comprehensive anthology of texts on angels across the Abrahamic traditions.

I. Sensible Life II. Man and Animal III. Intentional Species Part I. Physics of the Sensible IV. The World of the Sensible V. Intermediaries VI. Mirrors VII. The Place of the Images VIII. The Image in the Mirror IX. Micro-ontology X. Transparency XI. The Multiplication of the Real XII. The Primacy of the Sensible XIII. Natural Theater XIV. The Unity of the World Part II. Anthropology of the Sensible XV. "Vita Activa XVI. Transforming Spirit into Sensation XVII. Medial Existence XVIII. Intentional Projections XIX. Becoming What One Sees XX. Losing Oneself in Images XXI. Dream XXII. The "Intrabody" XXIII. Being Constantly Elsewhere XXIV. Seeds XXV. Influences XXVI. On the Surface of the Skin XXVII. Metaphysics of Clothing XXVIII. Fashion XXIX. Making the World Our Skin XXX. The Body of Clothing XXXI. "Ethos" XXXII. Living in Images Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.2.2016
Reihe/Serie Commonalities
Einführung Kevin Attell
Übersetzer Scott Alan Stuart
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 0-8232-6741-5 / 0823267415
ISBN-13 978-0-8232-6741-5 / 9780823267415
Zustand Neuware
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