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The Angel’s Corpse

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  • © 1999

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  1. Paul Colilli
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Part of the book series: Semaphores and Signs (SAS)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Idea of the Work

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 1-1

  3. First the Mortal Remains

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 2-10

  4. Poetology in a time of Destitution

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 11-12

  5. Lyric Philosophy

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 13-20

  6. Apparitions

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 21-29

  7. Transcendence falls from the Sky

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 30-40

  8. Fragments of a Recumbent Figure

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 41-42

  9. Lyric Fragments of a Reawakening

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 43-51

  10. Encrypted Signs

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 52-56

  11. The Earth has no way out other than to become Invisible

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 57-63

  12. Idea of the Name

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 64-64

  13. Decayed Logic of the Eternal Return

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 65-73

  14. Human Terror

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 74-75

  15. Angelus (I)

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 76-81

  16. Angelus (II)

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 82-88

  17. Madonna with Child

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 89-94

  18. De amore Fragili

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 95-100

  19. The Angel of Death is all Covered with Eyes

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 101-105

  20. The Fixed Gaze of Melancholy

    • Paul Colilli
    Pages 106-109
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

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