Ospiti Della Vita
Ospiti Della Vita
“We often tend to forget that we are guests of life. We are born, without wanting or knowing it, at a given time and place and, without wanting or knowing it, the body we have received as a biological inheritance spontaneously unfolds its wondrous and, at times, terrible processes...”. Remo Bodei
The Ospiti della vita collection presents the essay of the same name by the philosopher Remo Bodei, rendered as a small hand-bound book-manifesto, 10 metres long, for which Michele De Lucchi and Giuseppe Rivadossi have made two special cases, in leather and aluminium, and in wood.
Ospiti della vita is the theme proposed to Remo Bodei, which gave rise to a philosophical reflection on our time and our relationship with things. The essay, written for Numa in March 2006, is published in a small volume in a limited print run, made by hand according to the precious techniques of art publishing.
For this book – printed on fine paper from the Sicars paper mill in Catania, with texts set in Linotype in the Garamond typeface – Michele De Lucchi and Giuseppe Rivadossi have designed two cases in a limited edition, made in leather and aluminium and in wood, which, together with the book, will become part of the Limited Edition 2006 collections by Numa.
Appointed senator for life of the Italian Republic, Remo Bodei was Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, having long taught at the Scuola Normale Superiore and at the University of Pisa. He first worked on classical German idealism and aesthetics, more recently on theories of individuality and on logical and temporal anomalies.
