
The Angel's Corpse
P. Colilli(Author)
Palgrave MacMillan (Publisher)
Published on 29. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 189 pages
978-1-349-42155-8 (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 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 linked to the dissolution of the repetitive logic of history. With this book, Colilli aims to bring to life the traits that are close to the Angel and which amount to a new 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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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
X, 189 p.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
221 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-42155-8 (9781349421558)
DOI
10.1057/9780312299668
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Paul Colilli | Roberta Kevelson
The Angel's Corpse
Book
11/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
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