The Angel's Corpse

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-349-42155-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 221 g

Reihe: Semaphores and Signs

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colilli, P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

PAUL COLILLI is Professor of Italian Studies at Laurentian University. His books include and