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Ideal for those interested in \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eScience \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, his books challenge and expand traditional perspectives on presence and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"philosophy-of-the-home-by-emanuele-coccia-9781802061017","title":"Philosophy of the Home","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA searching account of the ethics and aesthetics of the home—the place that is most important in determining human happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom—are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows and doorways have guided our relationships with others and with ourselves. They reflect and reinforce social inequalities; they allow us to celebrate and cherish those we love. They are the places of return that allow us to venture out into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this intimate, elegantly argued account, Coccia shows how the architecture of home has shaped, and continues to shape, our psyches and our societies, before then masterfully leading us towards a more creative, ecological way of dwelling in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46235625128172,"sku":"9781802061017","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781802061017.jpg?v=1741131003"},{"product_id":"the-transitory-museum-by-emanuele-coccia-9781509533053","title":"The Transitory Museum","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout modernity, there has been a clear divide between art and commerce. Objects could either be consumed as commerce or contemplated as art. 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The name \"concept store,\" which has now spread across our globalised world, was originally coined to describe this new form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Transitory Museum\u003c\/em\u003e is the first philosophical inquiry into this new form of store, and it sheds new light on how categories that have governed our modern lives, such as commerce, art, fashion, and museum, are being redefined today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000821170412,"sku":"9781509533053","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/37e89a996e3024a0831a894dd0fb0eaf.jpg?v=1773004480"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-plants-by-emanuele-coccia-9781509531530","title":"The Life of Plants","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyse all elements of life. From this standpoint, we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone, life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words, life exists only insofar as it consumes other life, removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms, Coccia’s account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big, offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072376619244,"sku":"9781509531530","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12337553482725.jpg?v=1765099767"},{"product_id":"metamorphoses-by-emanuele-coccia-9781509545674","title":"Metamorphoses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/em\u003e by 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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 recognise instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558966149356,"sku":"9781509545674","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509545674-metamorphoses.jpg?v=1776924291"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-plants-by-emanuele-coccia-9781509531523","title":"The Life of Plants","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe barely talk about them and seldom know their names. 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