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A

1. Lorenzo Papi, Marino Marini (Turin: Priuli e Verlucca Editori, 1987).

B

1. M. H. Keefer, “The Dreamer’s Path: Descartes and the Sixteenth Cen-tury,” Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996), 30–76.

2. Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, trans. Nancy Pearson(Boulder and London: Shambhala, 1978), pp. 5–6.

3. Corbin, The Man of Light, pp. 5–6.4. Shaikh Ahmad Ahsa’i, “On the Esoteric Meaning of the Tomb,” in Henry

Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, trans. Nancy Pearson (Prince-ton: Princeton University Press, 1977), p. 189.

5. Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, trans. William Weaver and StephenSartarelli (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 187.

6. Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, trans.Ralph Manheim. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), p. 22.

7. Corbin, Creative Imagination, p. 220.8. Rafael Alberti, Sobre Los Ángeles (Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, S. A.,

1959), p. 86.9. Alberti, Sobre Los Ángeles, p. 22.

10. Eugenio Montale, Satura (Milan: Mondadori, 1971), p. 90.11. John Chrysostomos, Hom. III, 326–329 in Sur l’incompréhensibilité de

Dieu, ed. J. Daniélou, A. M. Malingrey, R. Flacelière. Sources Chrétiennes28 bis (Paris, 1970).

12. John Chrysostomos, Hom., IV, 222–228.230.13. Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies (London and New York: Verso,

1997), pp. 86, 87.14. Paul Virilio, The Art of the Motor, trans. Julie Rose (Minneapolis and Lon-

don: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), p. 69.15. Cited in Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, The Physics of Angels (San

Francisco: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 83.

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16. Rilke, “Orchards” from The Roses in The Complete French Poems of R. M.Rilke, trans. A. Poulin (St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1986), p. 138.

17. Michel Serres, Rome: The Book of Foundations, trans. FeliciaMcCarren(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), pp. 76–77.

18. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D. F. Pears andB. F. McGuinness (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 6.44.

19. Friedrich Nietzsche, Dithyrambs of Dionysus, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Red-ding Ridge: Black Swan Books, 1984).

20. Henri Meschonnic, Le signe et le poème (Paris: Gallimard, 1975), p. 48.

C

1. Martin Heidegger, “What Are Poets for?” in Poetry, Language, Thought,trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1975), p. 91.

2. Heidegger, “What Are Poets for?,” p. 92.3. Heidegger, “What Are Poets for?,” p. 94.4. Heidegger, “What Are Poets for?,” p. 94.5. Giacomo Leopardi, “Dialogo della moda e della morte” in Operette morali,

ed. P. Ruffilli (Milan: Garzanti, 1995), p. 35.

D

1. Franco Rella, La battaglia della verità (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1986), p. 41.2. Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, trans. P. A. Schlipp (La Salle and

Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1979), p. 7.3. Gianni Vattimo, The End of Modernity, trans. Jon R. Snyder (Baltimore:

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), p. 28.4. Vattimo, The End of Modernity, p. 29.5. Vattimo, The End of Modernity, p. 47.6. “Interview,” Corriere della sera (Terza pagina), Tuesday, May 6, 1997.7. Wislawa Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand, trans. S. Baranczak and

C. Cavanaugh (San Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt Brace,1993), p. 6.

8. Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand, p. 148.9. J.-F. Lyotard, The Post Modern Explained, trans. and ed. J. Pefanis and M.

Thomas (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993),pp. 15–16.

10. Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone di pensieri, in Tutte le opere, ed. F. Flora(Milan: Mondadori, 1967) I, 140.

11. Giorgio Agamben, The Idea of Prose, trans. Michael Sullivan and SamWhitsitt (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995), p. 104.

12. Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” in Illuminations,ed. H. Arendt and trans. H. Zohn (New York: Schocken, 1969), p. 263.

13. Walter Benjamin, “The Currently Effective Messianic Elements,” in Se-lected Writings, Volume 1: 1913 – 1926, p. 213.

14. Michel Foucault, “What Is an Author?” in The Foucault Reader, ed. PaulRabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984), p. 119.

E

1. Harold Bloom, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, andResurrection (New York: Riverhead Books, 1996), pp. 42 ff.

2. Rudolf Bultmann, Kerygma und Mythos (Hamburg: Reich, 1954), p. 17.3. Matthew Fox and Rupert Sheldrake, The Physics of Angels (San Francisco:

HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 193–194.4. The points summarize the contents of “Necessità dell’angelologia” found

in Corbin’s Il paradosso del monoteismo, trans. Gabriele Rebecchi (CasaleMonferrato: Marietti, 1986).

5. Corbin, Il paradosso del monoteismo, p. 39.6. Corbin, Il paradosso del monoteismo, pp. 41–42.7. Summa Theologiae I, q. 54, a. 4.8. Summa Theologiae I, q. 57, a. 2.9. Fox and Sheldrake, The Physics of Angels, p. 87.

10. Hildegard of Bingen, in Patrologia Latina, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris: Migne,1844–91), 197, 1041C.

11. Hildegard of Bingen, Patrologia Latina, 1045A.12. Hildegard of Bingen, Patrologia Latina, 1043C.13. Henry Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam, trans. Leonard Fox (West

Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1995), p. 9.14. Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam, pp. 10–11.15. Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam, pp. 14–15.16. Cited in Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam, p. 31.17. Corbin, Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam, p. 32.18. Maurice Merleau–Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible, trans. Alphonso

Lingis (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968), p. 257.19. Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins,

trans. P. Brault and M. Naas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993),pp. 4–5.

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F

1. Massimo Cacciari, The Necessary Angel, trans. Miguel E. Vatter. (Albany:SUNY Press, 1994), pp. 41–42.

2. Floyd Merrell, Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Process (Toronto, Buffalo, andLondon: University of Toronto Press, 1996), p. 275.

3. Merrell, Signs Grow, p. x.4. Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, trans. Seán Hand. Foreword by Paul Bové

(Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), p.105.

5. Deleuze, Foucault, p. 104.6. Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power (Stanford: Stanford University

Press, 1997).7. Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, trans. and foreword by

Tom Conley (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press,1993), p. 3.

8. Deleuze, The Fold, p. 3.9. Deleuze, The Fold, pp. 34–38.

10. Cacciari, The Necessary Angel, p. 33.11. Cacciari, The Necessary Angel, p. 14.12. Cacciari, The Necessary Angel, p. 3.13. Massimo Cacciari, Icone della legge (Milan: Adelphi, 1985), p. 283.14. Cacciari, Icone della legge, p. 283.15. Cacciari, Icone della legge, p. 298.16. “A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though

he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. Hiseyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how onepictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where weperceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps pilingwreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel wouldlike to say, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. Buta storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with suchviolence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistiblypropels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile ofdebris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress”(Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History” in Illumina-tions, p. 257).

17. Franco Rella, Il silenzio e le parole (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1981), p. 169.18. Franco Rella, “L’Angelo e la sua ombra,” Rivista di estetica 31 (XXIX)

1989, 118.19. Rella, “L’Angelo e la sua ombra,” p. 120.

20. Rella, “L’Angelo e la sua ombra,” p. 121.21. Rella, “L’Angelo e la sua ombra,” p. 125.22. St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram libri 12, in Patrologia latina 34. IV,

23–32.23. Paolo Valesio, Prose in poesia (Milan: Guanda, 1979), p. 89.

G

1. F. W. J. Schelling, Grundlegung der positiven Philosophie (Turin: Bottegad’Erasmo, 1972), p. 222.

2. Vladimir Solovyov, Lectures on Divine Humanity, rev. and ed. Boris Jakim(Hudson, N.Y.: Lindisfarne Press, 1995), p. 9.

3. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt(Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), p.106.

H

1. Walter Benjamin, Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle, trans. J. Lacoste (Paris: Leséditions du cerf, 1989), p. 366.

2. Walter Benjamin, “Karl Kraus,” in Reflections, trans. E. Jephcott (NewYork: Schocken Books, 1978), p. 269.

3. Benjamin, Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle, pp. 405–406.4. Giorgio Agamben, Idea of Prose,p. 133.5. Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci: A Study in Psychosexuality, trans. A. A.

Brill (New York: Vintage Books, 1947), pp. 7–8.6. Sigmund Freud, “The Moses of Michelangelo,” in The Standard Edition of

the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. J. Strachey (Lon-don: The Hogarth Press, 1957), XIII, 220–221.

7. P. D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum, rev. trans. E. Kadloubovsky (NewYork: Vintage Books, 1982), p. 221.

8. Plotinus, Select Works of Plotinus, trans. Thomas Taylor, ed. G. R. S. Mead(London: G. Bell & Sons, 1929).

9. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum, p. 222.10. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum, p. 222.11. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum, pp. 226–227.12. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 7.13. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 21.14. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 21.15. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 9.

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16. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 9.17. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 67.18. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 112.19. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 112.20. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p. 142.

I

1. Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, p. 6.2. Sigmund Freud, “The Unconscious,” Standard Edition XIV, p. 194.3. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, Vol 1, trans.

and intro. Nicholas T. Rand (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994),pp. 166, 168.

4. Abraham and Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, pp. 173, 181.5. Abraham and Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, p. 139.6. Abraham and Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, p. 157.7. Freud, “The Moses of Michelangelo,” p. 222.

J

1. Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, vol. 2 (New York: W.W.Norton, 1947), p. 275.

2. Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas: Word and Phantasm in Western Culture, trans.R. Martinez (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press,1993), p. 25.

3. Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, pp. 80–81.4. Corbin, Creative Imagination, p. 81.5. Cited in Fox and Sheldrake, The Physics of Angels, p. 91.6. Corbin, Creative Imagination, p. 292.7. Corbin, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, p. xiv.8. Quoted in Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 271.9. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 4.

10. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 5.11. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 11.12. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 11.13. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 11.14. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 11.15. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 13.16. Corbin, Spiritual Body, p. 14.17. Walter Benjamin, “Hashish in Marseilles,” in Reflections, p. 142.

18. Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism,” in Reflections, pp. 189–190.19. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson.

(New York: Harper and Row, 1962), p. 240.20. Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History: Essays on the Destruction of Experi-

ence, trans. Liz Heron (London and New York: Verso, 1993), p. 16.21. Benjamin, Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle, p. 126.

K

1. Walter Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, trans. J. Baker (London:SCM, 1967), II, 40.

2. Jacques Derrida, On the Name, trans. D. Wood, J.P. Leavey, and I.McLeod (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 55.

3. Giorgio Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 105.

L

1. Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. J. Osborne(London and New York: Verso, 1977), p. 178.

2. Paul Valéry, Cahiers (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), vol. I, 313, 175.3. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. S. Rendall (Berke-

ley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984), p. 97.4. Roberto Calasso, Ka (Milano: Adelphi, 1996).5. Benjamin, Paris, capital du XIXe siècle, p. 143.6. Benjamin, “Central Park,” New German Critique (34) Winter 1985: 36.7. Benjamin, “Central Park,” p. 34.8. Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, trans. William Weaver and Stephen

Sartarelli (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp.189–190.

9. Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, p. 192.10. Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch, p. 192.11. Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” pp.

257–258. See unit F, note 16 for the full quotation.12. Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street,” Selected Writings, p. 471.13. Franco Rella, Il silenzio e le parole, p. 169.14. Eduardo Cadava, Words of Light. Theses on the Photography of History

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 71.15. Massimo Cacciari, The Necessary Angel, p. 25.16. Summa Theologiae I, q. 54, a. 4.17. Summa Theologiae I, q. 52, a. 3.

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M

1. Plutarch, De “E” in Delphis in Diatriba isiaca e dialoghi delfici, ed. V.Cilento (Florence: Sansoni, 1962).

2. Ernesto Grassi, La potenza della fantasia, trans. C. Gentili and M. Marassi(Naples: Guida editori, 1989), p. 31.

3. Grassi, La potenza della fantasia, p. 32.

N

1. Michel Serres, Angels: A Modern Myth, trans. Francis Cowper, ed. PhilippaHurd (Paris and New York: Flammarion, 1995), p. 293.

2. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism andSchizophrenia, pp. 4–5.

3. Eric Blondel, Nietzsche: The Body and Culture, trans. Seàn Hand (Stanford:Stanford University Press, 1991), p. 101.

4. Paolo Valesio, Ascoltare il silenzio. La retorica come teoria (Bologna: IlMulino, 1986).

5. Cited in Fox and Sheldrake, The Physics of Angels, p. 94.6. J. Daniélou, Introduction to John Chrysostomos, Sur l’incompréhensibilité

de Dieu, p. 47.7. Basil of Caesarea, De Spirito Sancto, ed. B. Pruche, Sources Chrétiennes 17

bis (Paris, 1968), XVI, 38.8. Luigi Lanzi, Storia pittorica della Italia. Dal Risorgimento delle belle arti

fin presso al fine del XVIII secolo (Florence: Presso Giuseppe Molini,1834).

9. Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, trans. A. Barrows and J. Macy.(New York: Riverhead, 1996).

10. Agamben, Idea of Prose, p. 109.11. Rella, Il silenzio, p. 16.

O

1. Agamben, Stanzas, p, xviii.2. Agamben, Stanzas, p. xix.3. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 3.4. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 47.5. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 17ff.6. Cited in Agamben, The Idea of Prose, pp. 17–18.7. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p.123.8. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 37.

9. Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, trans. A. Smock (Londonand Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1988), p. 63.

10. Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, p. 63.11. Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, p. 63.12. Jacques Lacan, “Marginal Comments” in The Seminar of Jacques Lacan,

Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959 – 1960, trans. D. Porter. (NewYork and London: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997), p. 135.

13. Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, p. 1414. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, pp. 40–41.15. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 45.

P

1. Federico Borromeo, De Pictura Sacra (Castglioni, 1932), p. 38.2. Corbin, Il paradosso del monoteismo, pp. 39 ff.3. Pavel Evdokimov, Teologia della bellezza. L’arte dell’icona, trans. P.

Giuseppe da Vetralia (Cinisello Balsamo: Edizioni San Paolo, 1990), p. 30.4. Cyril of Alexandria, In Johannis Evangelium 16, 25 in Patrologia Graeca 73,

464B.5. Quoted in Evdokimov, Teologia della bellezza, p. 63.6. Franco Rella, L’enigma della bellezza (Milan: Feltrinelli, 1991), p. 12.7. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 91.8. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 90.9. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 91.

10. Rella, L’enigma della bellezza, p. 96.11. Rella, L’enigma della bellezza, p. 99.12. Rella, L’enigma della bellezza, p. 99.13. Rella, L’enigma della bellezza, p. 151.

Q

1. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, p. 2.2. Agamben, The Coming Community, p. 10.3. Agamben, The Idea of Prose, p. 61.4. Giorgio Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity: Heidegger and the Problem

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5. Agamben, The Coming Community, p. 1.6. Agamben, The Coming Community, p. 2.

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7. Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity,” p. 211.8. Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity,” p. 212.9. Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity,” p. 213.

10. Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity,” p. 213.11. Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity,” p. 215.12. Heidegger, cited in Agamben, “The Passion of Facticity.”13. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite, The Divine Names and Mystical Theology,

trans. John D. Jones (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1980), p. 144.14. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite, The Divine Names p. 144.15. Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite, The Divine Names, p. 146.

R

1. C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, trans. R. and C. Winston (NewYork: Vintage Books, 1963), p. 328.

2. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 284.3. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 284–285.4. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 285.5. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 286.6. Attilio Momigliano, “Friedrich Creuzer and Greek Historiography,” Jour-

nal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 9, 1946, p. 152.7. Cf. James Hillman, “Plotino, Ficino and Vico” in Loose Ends (Dallas:

Spring Publications, 1975), p. 148.8. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 286.

S

1. Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia (New York: Colum-bia University Press, 1989), p. 3.

2. Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas, p. 156.3. Agamben, Stanzas, p. 22.4. Agamben, Stanzas, p. 22.5. Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, p. 140.6. Peter Burger, Theory of the Avant-Garde, trans. Michael Shaw (Minneapo-

lis: University of Minnesota, 1984), p. 697. Benjamin, “Baudelaire,” in Selected Writings, p. 362.

T

1. C. S. Peirce: Collected Papers, ed. A. W. Burks (Cambridge, MA: HarvardUniversity Press, 1931 – 1958), 7.579–596.

2. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, p. 109.3. Italo Calvino, Lezioni americane (Milan: Garzanti, 1988).4. Rella, L’enigma della bellezza, p. 149.5. Calvino, Lezioni americane, pp. 7–8.6. Pavel Florenskij, Le porte regali. Saggio sulli’icona, ed. Elémire Zolla

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ed. J. Migne, Series Graeca 94, 865 A-B (Paris, 1928 – 1936)9. Cacciari, The Necessary Angel, p. 1.

10. Franco Rella, “Beauty’s Ulterior Gaze” in The Myth of the Other, trans. N.Moe (Washington, DC: Maisonneuve Press, 1994), pp. 82- 83.

11. C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers, vols. 1–6, ed. C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1931 – 1958),3.362.

12. Peirce, Collected Papers, 4.447; 4.422.13. Massimo Cacciari, Icone della legge (Milan: Adelphi, 1985), p. 173.14. Leonide Ouspensky, Théologie de l’icône (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1980), p.

17.15. Cacciari, Icone della legge, p. 178.16. Cacciari, Icone della legge, p.185.17. Evdokimov, Teologia della bellezza. L’arte dell’icona, pp. 171–172.18. Evdokimov, Teologia della bellezza, p. 172.19. Evdokimov, Teologia della bellezza, p. 177.20. Evdokimov, Teologia della bellezza, pp. 183–184.21. Florenskij, Le porte regali, p. 56.22. Florenskij, Le porte regali, p. 58.23. Cacciari, Icone della legge, p. 193.24. Elémire Zolla, Uscite dal mondo (Milan: Adelphi, 1992), pp. 246–247.25. Friedrich Nietzsche, Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe, vol. VIII-2, ed. Colli

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26. F. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin,1979), p. 103.

27. Cacciari, Icone della legge, p.14.28. Rella, La cognizione del male: Montale e Saba (Rome: Riuniti, 1985), p. 11.29. Rella, La cognizione del male, p. 11.30. Rella, La cognizione del male, p. 12.

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otexte, 1991), p. 116.

U

1. Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History: Essays on the Destruction of Experi-ence, p. 9.

2. Agamben, Infancy and History, p. 9.3. Maximus the Confessor, Various Chapters on Theology and Economy, on

Virtue and Vice, Centuria Secunda 89, Patrologia Graeca 90, 1253C.4. Christos Yannaras, “L’icona come ‘semantica’ del logos non conven-

zionale,” in In un’altra forma. Percorsi di iniziazione all’icona (Sotto ilMonte: Servitium-Interlogos, 1996), p. 73.

5. Augusto Illuminati, “Unrepresentable Citizenship,” trans. P. Colilli, inRadical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics, ed. P. Virno and M. Hardt(Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p.169.

6. Illuminati, “Unrepresentable Citizenship,” p. 172.7. Cited in Illuminati, “Unrepresentable Citizenship,” p. 174.8. Illuminati, “Unrepresentable Citizenship,” p. 175.9. Illuminati, “Unrepresentable Citizenship,” p. 183.

10. Michel Serres, Angels, p. 20.11. Serres, Angels, p. 17.

V

1. Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, trans. James McGowan. (Oxfordand New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

2. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel, p. 171.3. Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” p. 255.4. Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” p. 255.

W

1. Geoff Waite, Nietzsche’s Corps/e. Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy. Or, The Spec-tacular Technoculture of Everyday Life. (Durham and London: Duke Uni-versity Press, 1996).

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INDEX OF NAMES

Abraham, N., 53–55Adorno, T., 126–127, 129Agamben, G., 19, 42, 44–45, 57–58,

63, 82–85, 86–87, 92, 96–99,106–108, 120, 144–145

Alberti, R., 5Aquinas, St. Thomas, 7, 25–26, 27,

30, 58, 72–73, 78, 100Arendt, H., 83, 98, 148Aristotle, 12, 13, 14, 47, 59Augustine, St., 39, 98, 99

Bacon, F., 47Basil of Caesarea, 79Basilides, 132Bataille, G., 106, 111, 121Baudelaire, C., 68, 125Baudrillard, J., 152–153Benjamin, W., 3, 18, 19, 20, 30, 37,

43–44, 46, 62–63, 65, 67, 68,70–72, 83, 84–85, 86, 108–109,124, 127, 128, 130, 143,147–149, 150–151, 155, 158–161

Blanchot, M., 85Blondel, E., 77Bloom, H., 21Bocchi, A., 79Borromeo, F., 90Bruno, G., 66, 67, 129, 135, 144,

146, 149, 151, 152, 153–158, 161Bultmann, R., 2Burger, P., 109Butler, J., 33

Cacciari, M., 22, 30, 35–37, 72, 76,111, 112, 113, 114, 116–117

Cadava, E., 72Calasso, R., 4–5, 67, 69–70, 150Calvino, I., 68, 110–111Camillo, G., 129, 146, 154Campanella, T., 144Carrey, J., 69Célan, P., 84Certeau, M. de, 65Chrysostomos, J., 6, 78Claudel, P. 162Clement VIII (Pope), 161Corbin, H., 3–4, 5, 23–24, 28–29,

30, 38, 52, 58–61, 71, 81, 82,90–91, 106, 128

Couliano, I., 149Creuzer, F., 104–105Cvetaeva, M., 43Cyril of Alexandria, 91

Damascenus, J., 111Dante, 14, 67, 82, 124Davis, E., 143Deleuze, G., 31, 32–35, 49–51, 77Derrida, J., 29, 64, 108Descartes, R., 2, 26, 139Dostoevsky, F., 91, 93Dürrenmatt, F., 1Düttman, A. G., 83–84

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