Metamorphoses

ISBN-13: 9781509545674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Emanuele Coccia

Recenzje

"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." Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction The Continuity of Life The Forms Within Us 1. Births Every Self is a Forgetting One and the Same Life Birth and Nature Cosmic Twins Giving Birth, or the Migration of Life Carnival of the Gods The Speech of the Earth Metamorphosis as Destiny Mirror of the World 2. Cocoons Transformations Insects Every Living Being is a Chimera A Postnatal Egg Rejuvenations A New Idea of Technics The Metamorphosis of Plants The Cocoon of the World 3. Reincarnations Eating and Metamorphosis Being Eaten Reincarnation and the Transmigration of the Self Genetics and Reincarnation The Shadow of the Species 4. Migrations Planetary Migration Vehicle Theory The Great Ark Everybody in the House The Domestic Life of Non-Humans Invasions 5. Associations The Multispecies City Interspecies Architecture Our Mind is Always in the Bodies of Other Species The End of Wilderness Contemporary Nature Conclusion Bibliography

O autorze

Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris.