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