The Necessary Angel by Massimo Cacciari
is a tour de force--an original vocabulary for thinking the limits of meaning and the mystery at the core of human expression.-
Inner Experience
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The Step Not Beyond
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The Hermeneutic Tradition
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Transforming the Hermeneutic Context
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The Literary Absolute
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Of the Sublime: Presence in Question
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Manifesto for Philosophy
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Thinking Unrest
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The Birth of Novalis
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Time in Exile
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Announcements
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The Shadow of Totalitarianism
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Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation
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On the Study of Greek Poetry
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The Retreat of Representation
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On Bataille
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Fleeing the Universal
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Figures of Simplicity
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Redeeming Words
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Idealism and the Endgame of Theory
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The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
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Derrida and the Future of Literature
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Briefings on Existence
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Disgust
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The Hand of the Engraver
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Approaching Hegel's Logic, Obliquely
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Tears
"Cacciari tells a storyIt is the story of the history of angels in Judaic, Islamic, and Christian traditions; and it continues as an amplification of the metaphor of angels in such writers as Dante, Rilke, Kafka, Benjamin, Klee, and Marc in order to speak about the phenomenology of language. Cacciari talks about angels in order to describe the contradictory nature of linguistic signs (absolute freedom and absolute determination). The greatest importance of this book is its 'poetic' approach to phenomenology and the genre of philosophical writing." — Beverly Allen
"Massimo Cacciari's book The Necessary Angel is both an extremely erudite elucidation of angelology that discusses philosophy, religion, literature, music and painting; and a philosophical focus on the figure of the Angel as 'suspended between all the axes of creation.'" — Alexander Garcia Düttmann
"Cacciari's unpredictable approaches to the literary, philosophical, and artistic tradition that frames our present intellectual situation, particularly the one that takes shape in the Germanic world of the early twentieth century, are always penetrating and at times even dazzling. This book is an astounding tour de force, eclectic to be sure, but compelling in its defining the contours of that 'angelic' apriori, which is both beyond the human yet intimately inherent in the human—an apriori which discloses the world in its indeterminate, finite transcendence and which makes of the human a locus of intermediary meaning whose ultimate terms are ungraspable, unsayable, and enigmatic. It offers a new figure, an original vocabulary, a fresh network of references, for the intellectual issues that concern so many of us: nihilism, post-modernism, the conditions of intelligibility, and the status of language." — Robert Harrison
Massimo Cacciari is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Venice, Italy. He is the author of Krisis; Dallo Steinhof; Icone della Legge; Zeit ohne Kronos; and Drama y duelo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791421895 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791421899 |
| Title | The Necessary Angel |
| Author | Massimo Cacciari |
| Series | Suny Series Intersections: Philosophy And Critical Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1994-11-09 |
| Number of pages | 124 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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