The Angel S Corpse

Author : P. Colilli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780312299668

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The Angel’s Corpse by P. Colilli Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Colilli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Angels
ISBN : 0333802160

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The Angel's Corpse by Paul Colilli Pdf

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.

Author : Henry J. Morro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173010325607

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Corpses of Angels by Henry J. Morro Pdf

Henry J. Morro's CORPSES OF ANGELS is a stunning debut of powerful and tender poems about identity, the gender wars and survival. These poems reveal the beauty and terror of awakening in a new country, searching for the touchstones of memory, reaching back and finding the language of peasants and machetes, of machine guns and priests, of gods and flesh. Henry Morro's poems exude a gross beauty which explodes the heart, cause a delicious pain, leaves the victim yearning--Wanda Coleman.

Author : Mark Durant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595329434

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The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels by Mark Durant Pdf

The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels follows Ix Pantheos from his awakening in a ruined castle through his travels to the moon, the sun, and beyond, carried along by the songs of thirty angels as they initiate him into the mysteries of consciousness and the nature of existence. The answer seemingly found and the journey apparently nearing its end, Ix then finds that he must suffer the destruction of his former self, and face a new struggle to hold onto all that was revealed to him. Born of a series of meditations performed by the author, and utilizing an eclectic mix of various world religious and occult philosophies, the story is a surreal journey into the depths of the mind, echoing Ix's own quest to redeem both himself and mankind. While it stands alone as an engaging read for those unacquainted with the various schools of inquiry that comprise the fertile field within which it took root, it retains that symbolism which may prove insightful to like-minded readers who find themselves treading its obscure paths.

Author : Thomas MILLS (of Nottingham.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023496763

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Angels and Heaven by Thomas MILLS (of Nottingham.) Pdf

Author : Benjamin P. Blosser
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813220017

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Become Like the Angels by Benjamin P. Blosser Pdf

"An ambitious and very well-researched book on the way in which Origen deals with a fundamental issue in ancient philosophy---the position, state, and function of the soul in a living being. It is a topic at the core of all anthropological and cosmological thinking in Late Antiquity. In elegant, lucid prose, Blosser takes the reader gently through the minefield of previous scholarship and presents a very clear and skillful exposition of Origen as religious philosopher."---John A. McGuckin, Professor of Byzantine Church History, Columbia University, and Editor of The Westminster Handbook to Origen of Alexandria --Book Jacket.

Author : David Keck
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Angels
ISBN : 9780195110975

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Angels & Angelology in the Middle Ages by David Keck Pdf

Angels have made a remarkable comeback in the popular imagination; their real heyday, however, was the Middle Ages. This text offers a study of angels and angelology in the Middle Ages, seeking to discover how and why angels became so important in medieval society.

Author : Constance Classen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134678198

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The Colour of Angels by Constance Classen Pdf

The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.

Author : Justin Robertson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300925811

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Guardian Angels by Justin Robertson Pdf

Just when he thought his life was normal... death washed over him. Wade McCloud took on a new career; a guardian angel. Wade must fight demons and protect the innocent. He faces a huge challenge when Hades, God of the Underworld, tries to take over Zeus's throne in the Temple of the Gods.

Author : Michael Sorkin
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0860913236

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Exquisite Corpse by Michael Sorkin Pdf

'Exquisite Corpse' was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book, Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are similarly assembled by many players acting with varying autonomy in a complicit framework. An unfolding terrain of invention, the city is also a means of accommodating disparity, of contextualizing sometimes startling juxtapositions. Sorkin's aim is to widen the debate about the creation of buildings beyond the immediate issues of technology and design. He discusses the politics and culture of architecture with daring, often devastating, observations about the institutions and personalities who have dominated the profession over the past decade. Their preoccupation with the empty style of 'beach houses and Disneyland' has consistently trivialized the full constructive scope of contemporary architecture's possibilities. Sorkin's interventions range from the development scandals of New York where 'skyscrapers stand at the intersection between grid and greed', through the deconstructivist architectural culture of Los Angeles, to the work and ideas of architects, developers and critics such as Alvar Aalto, Norman Foster, Paul Goldberger, Michael Graves, Coop Himmelblau, Philip Johnson, Leon Krier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Rogers, Carlo Scarpa, James Stirling, Donald Trump, Tom Wolfe and Lebbeus Woods. Throughout Sorkin combines stinging polemic with a powerful call for a rebirth of architecture that is visionary and experimental--a recuperated 'dreamy science'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Daimon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783856307042

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Talking with Angels by Anonim Pdf

The true story of four young Hungarians in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval - the holocaust - who encountered luminous forces that helped them find new direction and hope in their shattered lives. These forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied them for seventeen perilous months, until three of them met their deaths in Nazi concentration camps. Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring their story and these remarkable dialogues to the world. Gitta Mallasz always rejected any notion of 'authorship' for this book, saying, I am merely the 'scribe' of the angels.

Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786401702

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The Corpse by Christine Quigley Pdf

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist. Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of study. Burial arrangements and preparations are detailed, including embalming, the funeral service, storage and transport of the body, and forms of burial. Autopsies and the investigative process of causes of deliberate death are fully covered. Preservation techniques such as cryonic suspension and mummification are discussed, as well as a look at the recycling of the corpse through organ donation, donation to medicine, animal scavengers, cannibalism, and, of course, natural decay and decomposition. Mistreatments of a corpse are also covered.

Author : Leor Halevi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231511933

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Muhammad's Grave by Leor Halevi Pdf

Winner, 2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association Winner, 2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion Winner, 2011 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America Winner, 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Shortlisted, 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion Longlisted, 2008 Cundill International Prize and Lecture in HIstory at McGill University In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period produced codes of funerary law not only to define the handling of a Muslim corpse but also to transform everyday urban practices. Relying on oral traditions, these scholars established new social patterns in the cities of Arabia, Mesopotamia, and the eastern Mediterranean. They distinguished Islamic rites from Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian rites and changed the way men and women interacted publicly and privately. In each chapter Halevi explores a different layer of human interaction, following the movement of the corpse from the deathbed to the grave. In the process he analyzes the real and imaginary relationships between husbands and wives, prayer leaders and mourners, and even dreamers and the dead. He describes how Muslims wailed for the deceased, prepared corpses for burial, marched in funerary processions, and prayed for the dead, highlighting the specific economic and political factors involved in these rituals as well as key religious and sexual divisions. Offering a unique perspective on the making of Islamic social and religious ideals during this early period, Halevi forges a fascinating link between the development of funerary rites and the efforts of an emerging religion to carve out its own, distinct identity. Muhammad's Grave is a groundbreaking history of the rise of Islam and the roots of contemporary Muslim attitudes toward the body and society.

Author : William Henry Holcombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : American poetry
ISBN : BL:A0023228358

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Poems by William Henry Holcombe Pdf

Author : Paula Guran
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780338002

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The Mammoth Book of Angels & Demons by Paula Guran Pdf

Despite our tendency to think of the demonic as evil and the angelic as good, our own legends don't always bear this out. Angels can be the incarnation of light and salvation, but they can also fall - Satan himself is a fallen angel. Demons can be truly demonic, but these unearthly creatures can also, on occasion, lend humankind a hand. Temptation can lead to revelation, supernatural messengers who bring true justice may not be welcomed, and beings seeking redemption can be blind to mortal needs. Stories from world-renowned authors of science fiction and fantasy - including Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin and Joyce Carol Oates - and rising stars portray angels in all their glory, demons at their most dreadful, and a surprising variety of modern interpretations of ancient myth.