The name of Averroes circulated, historically, as a cursed word, as an impious part of the West: a danger that must be abjured. However, one of the reasons why Averroism was impossible to ward off is because its shadow represents a way of opening academic philosophy to the unthinkable, the incalculable, the ungovernable. This book is a set of texts that leads thought to the generosity of what is undomesticated by institutional philosophy. Focused on the work of the Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia, the book gives an account of the Averroist gesture parasitized in the return of ontology as machines for the production of the real. Emanuele Coccia, one of the most interesting thinkers on the contemporary philosophical scene, creates the conditions to think about what is apparently not permitted from this subject: sensible life, fashion, advertising, plants and the imagination, among o...read more