Angels Corpse

Name: Angels Corpse
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ISBN: 9780312221508

ISBN-10: 0312221509

ISBN-13: 9780312221508

Edition: N/A

Authors: Paul Colilli

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With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics, poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical nature allowing it to be more philosophical than the pure representation of existence. Today, however, the theoretical status of poetic logic has been greatly demoted. The Angel's Corpse restores to poetic logic (or lyric philosophy) the cognitive and epistemological significance attributed to it by Aristotle. The Angel's corpse (the central metaphor in this restoration) is a sign post beyond which there exists an uncharted terrain of human signification. This terrain is expressed in terms of lyric philosophy, and its universal trait is a shocking into reawakening, which is…

Book details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/29/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Preface	p. ix
Idea of the Work	p. 1
First the Mortal Remains	p. 2
Poetology in a Time of Destitution	p. 11
Lyric Philosophy	p. 13
Apparitions	p. 21
Transcendence Falls from the Sky	p. 30
Fragments of a Recumbent Figure	p. 41
Lyric Fragments of a Reawakening	p. 43
Encrypted Signs	p. 52
The Earth Has No Way Out Other Than to Become Invisible	p. 57
Idea of the Name	p. 64
Decayed Logic of the Eternal Return	p. 65
Human Terror	p. 74
Angelus (I)	p. 76
Angelus (II)	p. 82
Madonna with Child	p. 89
De Amore Fragili	p. 95
The Angel of Death Is All Covered with Eyes	p. 101
The Fixed Gaze of Melancholy	p. 106
The First and Last Sign of Human Life	p. 110
The Unrepresentable Community	p. 120
Anti-Annunciation	p. 124
The Angel Signs Its Name	p. 126
Kabbalistic Theses	p. 141
An Occult Kind of Ascesis	p. 143
Annunciation	p. 162
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 179
Index of Names	p. 187
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