Goods - Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image

Informationen zum Autor Emanuele Coccia Klappentext Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the EHESS in Paris. He is the author of Sensible Life: A Micro-Ontology of the Image . With Giorgio Agamben, he is editor of a comprehensive anthology of texts on angels across the Abrahamic traditions. Zusammenfassung Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness-not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection for any one of us. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Last Name of the Good 1. Walls 2. Cities 3. The Banality of the Good 4. Totem 5. The World of Things 6. Towards a Moral Hyper-Realism Afterword to the English-Language Edition Notes Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Emanuele Coccia
• Assisted by: Marissa Gemma (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780823280223
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8022-3
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing