Emanuele Coccia

Post-doctoral fellowships 2005-2006: Autonomous University of Barcelona. Invited Professor, September 2010: University of Buenos Aires In this book, Coccia defines the ontological status of the image as something apart from or between subject and object, not merely as illusion but as something sensed and actually lived through. The second part of the book looks at how we interact with images through dreams, fashion, and biology. Published by Fordham University Press, the English translation by Scott Alan Stuart is rendered as A Sensible Life: A Micro-ontology of the Image, part of the press's series on Commonalities.

In 2016, he contributed to the collective work Adam, la nature humaine, avant et après. Épistémologie de la Chute under the direction of Irène Rosier-Catach and Gianluca Briguglia. The following year, La Vie des plantes was awarded the Prix PhiloMonaco d'Essai. reinforces plants as active beings, and, moreover, as the creators of the atmosphere. It takes the view that plants actively shape and connect all living beings on the planet. One reviewer praised the work overall, but argued that Coccia puts too much weight on his argument about seeds. Reason, Coccia argues, is a seed even before the seed as existing matter. And from reason to seed, through the soil and the roots, the plant thus connects with everything. But, Josh Dugat argues that Coccia's thesis neglects the simple fact that every plant does not originate from seeds. Coccia does, however, point out in the book that "reason is a seed or a spore."

In 2018, he contributed to Dior Images, a visual tribute to Paolo Roversi published by Rizzoli. In this vein, he also collaborated with photographer Viviane Sasson on Modern Alchemy: Artisans of the Wild: an Enchanting History, 2, a meditation on art and nature and the unity of all sentient life forms. Coccia's author bio for the book describes him as a philosopher of aesthetics, reemphasizing his focus on the ontological status of the image. Coccia's research about images and aesthetics naturally parlayed into the fashion scene. He met Alessandro Michele while the latter was still at Gucci, through mutual acquaintance Giovanni Attili, a professor of urban planning at the Università La Sapienza in Rome, who is Michele's committed partner. Coccia explained in an interview that he and Michele instantly understood each other and from that connection they conceived the book that became in English The Life of Forms: Philosophy of Re-Enchantment (HarperCollins, 2025.) He was quoted in the Vogue interview: "I believe that fashion is the art that allows life to take its form, and therefore is the privileged subject of philosophy."

In 2019, Coccia acted as scientific advisor on the exhibition (Our Trees) in the garden of the Cartier Foundation in Paris.

In 2020-2021, Coccia was then a guest artist for a year at Le Fresnoy, the , (national studio of contemporary art.) In addition, from 2021 to 2022, he wrote a monthly column entitled "Points de vie" in the French daily newspaper Libération. Around this time, through his book, , he began to focus on ideas about space, in particular the Aristotelian idea of space as a third element between object and subject.

He contributed to the series Où va la philosophie française ? published in Les Cahiers from Les Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco. The volume, a collective work, was published by Librairie philosophique J. Vrin in 2024.

He co-edited the collective Le cri de Gaïa with Frédérique Aït-Touati, a historian of science. Contributors to the work include philosopher Vinciane Despret. (Translated in five languages) . Une métaphysique du mélange, Paris, Payot et Rivages, 2016. Translated in ten languages, including the English The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture. Polity Press, 2018. . At 10 Corso Como, Paris, Klincksieck, 2018, 104 p.. (Translated in English.) , Paris, Bibliothèque Rivages, 240 p., 2020. Translated in English by Robin Mackay as Metamorphoses. Polity Press, 2021. . , translated by Léo Texier, Paris, Bibliothèque Rivages, 150 p., 2022. Translated in English as Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness. Penguin Books, 2024. , translated by Joël Gayraud, Paris, Rivages, 2023, 250 p. Co-authored with Alessandro Michele. HarperCollins , 224p., 2024. . Translated by as The Life of Forms: Theory of the Re-enchantment. HarperCollins, 2025. , Paris, Climats/Éditions Flammarion, 288 p., 2026.