Sensible Life: A Micro-Ontology of the Image

by Emanuele Coccia

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823267423
• ISBN13: 9780823267422
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"