From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things
have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with
the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from
diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning,
things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often
unaware. The meaning of "thing" is richer than that of "object,"
which is something that is manipulated with indifference or
according to impersonal technical procedures. Things also differ
from merchandise, objects that can be sold or exchanged or seen as
status symbols. Things, in the philosophical sense, are nodes of
relationships with the life of others, chains of continuity among
generations, bridges that connect individual and collective
histories, junctions between human civilizations and nature. Things
incite us to listen to reality, to make them part of ourselves,
giving fresh life to an otherwise suffocating interiority. Things
also reveal the hidden aspect of a "subject" in its most secret and
least explored side. Things are the repositories of ideas,
emotions, and symbols whose meaning we often do not understand. In
an unexpected but coherent journey that includes the visions of
classic philosophers from Aristotle to Husserl and from Hegel to
Heidegger, along with the analysis of works of art, Bodei addresses
issues such as fetishism, the memory of things, the emergence of
department stores, consumerism, nostalgia for the past, the
self-portraits of Rembrandt and Dutch still-lifes of the
seventeenth century. The more we are able to recover objects in
their wealth of meanings and integrate them into our mental and
emotional horizons, he argues, the broader and deeper our world
becomes.
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