The Life of Things, the Love of Things

Remo Bodei

Published by Fordham University Press 2015

The Life of Things, the Love of Things

Remo Bodei
Translated by: Murtha Baca

In the series Commonalities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823264452

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About this book

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 production, coming from diverse histories, enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.

Author / Editor information

Bodei Remo :

Remo Bodei is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Pisa after having taught for many years at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the University of California, Los Angeles.Baca Murtha :

Murtha Baca has translated numerous books from the Italian. Her translations include Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.

Reviews

—Roberto Esposito:
“Simple things. Bare objects still new or already worn out. Objects unscathed or consumed and so slated for insignificance and destruction. But is this really the fate of things today or is there instead another way of looking at them, one able to salvage things somehow from such an anonymous and listless end? This is the piercing and original question that Remo Bodei poses in The Life of Things, The Love of Things.”

—Adriaan T. Peperzak:
“Bodei’s philosophical expertise is obvious, but he surpasses by far the level of most phenomenologies of “things” thanks to his refined sensibility with regard to the vital, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and religious aspects of various types of things.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
1. Objects and Things Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Opening Up to the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. Living Nature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
COMMONALITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 144
Keywords: Thing; object; Image; aristotle; Husserl; heidegger; still life; painting; Rembrant; consumerism

eBook

Published: April 1, 2015
ISBN: 9780823264452