The Angel's Corpse, Paul Colilli, 1999.
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Colilli bases his work in very large measure on Corbin. Loaded with citations. I was unaware of his work. Thanks yet again to Hadi Fakhoury for the reference.
"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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