The Necessary Angel

Cacciari, academic (aesthetics, U. of Venice) and mayor of Venice as of 1993, surveys the history of angels in Judaic, Islamic, and Christian traditions; and how Dante, Rilke, Kafka, and other writers have used the metaphor of angels to speak about the phenomenology of language. Translated from the

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Massimo Cacciari, Cacciari Massimo
• Assisted by: Miguel E Vatter (Translation), Miguel E. Vatter (Translation), Vatter Miguel E. (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.1994
• EAN: 9780791421895
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2189-5
• No. of pages: 124
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Series: Suny Series, Intersections: Ph; SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal