EAN: 9781509545674

METAMORPHOSES - EMANUELE COCCIA KARTONIERT (TB)

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. 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. 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.

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