Coccia, Emanuele

Bio Sketch

Emanuele Coccia is an Italian philosopher whose work spans the philosophy of life, nature, and the domestic. His Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness argues that "homes do not exist per se. Only homemaking exists," grounding domestic life in the Stoic concept of oikeiosis (appropriation) and the claim that "we occupy only things." He is also known for The Life of Plants and Metamorphoses.

Key Works

• Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness (2024) — homemaking as appropriation; things as our doubles; the home as "by definition, uninhabitable" in its formal shell.
• The Life of Plants (2018) — the biological and philosophical significance of plant life.
• Metamorphoses (2021) — transformation and the life of forms.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• appropriation — oikeiosis as the Stoic root of appropriation; homemaking as the construction of a "suit" of things around the self.

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Coccia is directly relevant to Geoffrey's Phenomenology of Place and The Everyday areas. His claim that "we occupy only things" and that "things are our doubles" provides a philosophical grounding for the relationship between inhabitants and the objects of everyday life — connecting to Spuybroek's theory of inhabitation as appropriation and to the broader question of the ontological status of ordinary things.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• spuybroek 2025 habit inhabit stuff trash — Spuybroek's extensive engagement with Coccia's Philosophy of the Home.