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Metamorphoses
1. Aufl.
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16,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Wiley |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 09.06.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781509545681 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 180 |
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<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
Acknowledgements<br /><br /><br />Introduction<br /><br />The Continuity of Life<br /><br />The Forms Within Us<br /><br /><br />1. Births<br /><br />Every Self is a Forgetting<br /><br />One and the Same Life<br /><br />Birth and Nature<br /><br />Cosmic Twins<br /><br />Giving Birth, or the Migration of Life<br /><br />Carnival of the Gods<br /><br />The Speech of the Earth<br /><br />Metamorphosis as Destiny<br /><br />Mirror of the World<br /><br /><br />2. Cocoons<br /><br />Transformations<br /><br />Insects<br /><br />Every Living Being is a Chimera<br /><br />A Postnatal Egg<br /><br />Rejuvenations<br /><br />A New Idea of Technics<br /><br />The Metamorphosis of Plants<br /><br />The Cocoon of the World<br /><br /><br />3. Reincarnations<br /><br />Eating and Metamorphosis<br /><br />Being Eaten<br /><br />Reincarnation and the Transmigration of the Self<br /><br />Genetics and Reincarnation<br /><br />The Shadow of the Species<br /><br /><br />4. Migrations<br /><br />Planetary Migration<br /><br />Vehicle Theory<br /><br />The Great Ark<br /><br />Everybody in the House<br /><br />The Domestic Life of Non-Humans<br /><br />Invasions<br /><br /><br />5. Associations<br /><br />The Multispecies City<br /><br />Interspecies Architecture<br /><br />Our Mind is Always in the Bodies of Other Species<br /><br />The End of Wilderness<br /><br />Contemporary Nature<br /><br /><br />Conclusion<br /><br /><br />Bibliography
<p>"Emanuele Coccia defines anew the relationship between humans and nature – a fascinating inquiry, and one which we urgently need in order to open our eyes to the world around us."<br />—<b>Peter Wohlleben, author of <i>The Hidden Life of Trees</i></b></p> <p>"Emanuele Coccia's <i>Metamorphoses</i> is effectively Darwinian and also profoundly philosophical. With lyric prose sparkling with ideas at every turn, the work is inspiring, insightful, and stimulating."<br />—<i><b>Environmental Philosophy</b></i></p>
<b>Emanuele Coccia</b> is Associate Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris.
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