Emanuele Coccia is an Italian philosopher. Since 2011 he is a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Starting with studies on Averroes and Averroism, his research has turned to the ontological status of images and their normative power, and to the investigation of the nature of living things.
He has collaborated on editorial projects with the philosopher Giorgio Agamben and has held lectures and courses at the universities of Freiburg, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Columbia University and Princeton.
Among his publications La vita sensibile (Sensible Life: A Micro-ontology of the Image, 2011), Il bene nelle cose. La pubblicità come discorso morale (Goods: Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image, 2014), La vita delle piante. Una metafisica della mescolanza (The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture, 2017), Métamorphoses (2020). His most recent essay is Filosofia della casa (Philosophy of the Home, 2021). His books have been translated into several languages. He is a columnist for Libération and collaborates with Le Monde and la Repubblica.