We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think & speak yet to live means first & foremost to look taste feel or smell the world around us But sensibility is not just a faculty We are sensible objects both to ourselves & to others & our life is through & through a sensible life This book now translated into five languages rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy theology & politics Coccia begins by defining the ontological status of images Not just an internal modification of our consciousness an image has an intermediate ontological status that differs from that of objects or subjects The book's second part explores our interactions with images in dream fashion & biological facts like growth & generation Our life Coccia argues is the life of images