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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.
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.
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