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In Plotinian philosophy the icon brought about a nostalgia for Beauty and Eros. (In the end, Hölderlin tells us, the wise move toward Beauty.) Is it possible to think of Beauty as the most privileged of epistemological categories given that knowledge follows a trajectory that has Beauty as its end? The aesthetic, in its most originary manifestation, as the caput mundi of thought? “Beauty,” Rilke tells us
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© 1999 Paul Colilli
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Colilli, P. (1999). Madonna with Child. In: The Angel’s Corpse. Semaphores and Signs. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299668_16
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