In The Angel's Corpse, Paul Colilli rethinks the cognitive and epistemological significance once attributed to poetic logic. Through the interpretative lens of poetic logic, this book offers a new world of meaning rooted in the critical dynamics of a movement that links the form of the visible with the formlessness of the invisible. The principle figure in this movement is the Angel, who shares the same fate as poetic logic.

With examples ranging from an array of different fields -- Corbin's research on Sufi philosophy, Benjamin's poetic thought, Ouspensky's "tertium organum," the rhizome of Deleuze-Guattari, Abraham and Torok's idea of the haunting phantom, Jung's hallucination at Galla Placidia's tomb, Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day, as well as the theology of the icon, hermetic semiosis, Michel Foucault's sadomasochistic practices, and others -- Colilli critically rethinks the signifying nature of the Angel and probes into the critico-philosophical attributes of poetic logic.