Description: From prehistoric stone tools to machines to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of production, coming from diverse histories, enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.
Brief description: Remo Bodei is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Pisa after having taught for many years at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Review Quotes: "Bodei's philosophical expertise is obvious, but he surpasses by far the level of most phenomenologies of "things" thanks to his refined sensibility with regard to the vital, ethical, economic, aesthetic, and religious aspects of various types of things."-----Adriaan T. Peperzak, Loyola University, Chicago