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"Like Foucault and Levinas before him, though in very different ways, Scott makes an oblique incision into phenomenology . . . [it is] the kind of book to which people dazed by the specters of nihilism will be referred by those in the know." —David Wood

". . . refreshing and original." —Edward S. Casey

In The Lives of Things, Charles E. Scott reconsiders our relationships with ordinary, everyday things and our capacity to engage them in their particularity. He takes up the Greek notion of phusis, or physicality, as a way to point out limitations in refined and commonplace views of nature and the body as well as a device to highlight the often overlooked lives of things that people encounter. Scott explores questions of unity, purpose, coherence, universality, and experiences of wonder and astonishment in connection with scientific fact and knowledge. He develops these themes with lightness and wit, ultimately articulating a new interpretation of the appearances of things that are beyond the reach of language and thought.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-v
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. p. vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Part I PHYSICALITY
  1. ONE Facts and Astonishments
  2. pp. 3-21
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  1. TWO What's the Matter with "Nature"?
  2. pp. 22-53
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  1. THREE Phusis and Its Generations
  2. pp. 54-82
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  1. Part II TOPICS AT "NATURE'S" EDGE
  1. FOUR Physical Memories
  2. pp. 85-98
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  1. FIVE Starlight in the Face of the Other
  2. pp. 99-112
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  1. SIX Physical Weight on the Edge of Appearing
  2. pp. 113-124
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  1. SEVEN Lightness of Mind and Density
  2. pp. 125-143
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  1. EIGHT Feeling, Transmission, Phusis: A Short Genealogy of "immanence"
  2. pp. 144-174
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  1. NINE Psalms, Poems, and Morals with Celestial Indifference
  2. pp. 175-183
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  1. TEN The Phusis of Nihil: The Sight and Generation of Nihilism
  2. pp. 184-194
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 195-196
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  1. About the Author
  2. p. 197
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