The Angel's Corpse
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 29. November 1999
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-333-80216-8 (ISBN)
Description
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" seeks to restore 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 linked to the dissolution of the repetitive logic of history. With this book, Paul Colilli aims to bring to life the traits that are close to the Angel and which amount to a philosophy of culture and interpretation. This philosophy is free from the ideological burden of previous systems, but pivots its cognito-epistemological premises on the idea of reawakening.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80216-8 (9780333802168)
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Persons
PAUL COLILLI is Professor of Italian Studies at Laurentian University. His books include Signs of the Hermetic Imagination and The Idea of a Living Spirit.
Content
Preface - First the Mortal Remains - Lyric Fragments of a Reawakening - Probings into an Alien Order of Signification - The First and Last Sign of Human Life - Hermetic Reason in the Era of Late Capitalism - Bibliography - Index