PROLOGUE AKCNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: The Theological Apotheosis of Lyric in Dante''s Paradiso 1. Self-Reflexion and Lyricism in the Paradiso 2. Orientation to Philosophical Logics and Rhetorics of Self-Reflexivity 3. Self-Reflexive Lyricism and Ineffability PART I. The Paradiso ''s Theology of Language and its Lyric Origins: Out of the Abyss 4. The Self-Reflexive Trinitarian Structure of God and Creation 5. Beyond Representation--Origins of Lyric Reflection in Nothing 6. The Circularity of Song--and its Mystic Upshot 7.
Self-Reflexive Fulfillment in Lyric Tradition and its Theological Troping by Dante 8. The Lark Motif and its Echoes 9. An Otherness Beyond Objective Representation and Reference 10. The Mother Bird''s Vigil--Canto XXIII and the Lyric Circle 11. Ineffability in the Round--and its Breakthrough 12. The Substance of Creation as Divine Self-Reflection 13. Eclipse of Trinity and Incarnation as Models of Transcendence through Self-Reflection 14. Narcissus and his Redemption by Dante PART II.
Self-Reflection on the Threshold between the Middle Ages and Modernity: A Theological Genealogy of the Birthing of Modernity as the Age of Representation 15. Self-Reflective Refoundation of Consciousness in Philosophy 16. From Postmodern to Premodern Critique of Self-Reflection--Egolology versus Theology 17. Self-Reflection in the Turning from Medieval to Modern Epistemology 18. Crisis of Conflicting Worldviews and Duns Scotus 19. Towards the Self-Reflexive Formation of Transcendental Concepts 20. Severance of Theory from Practice, Disentangling of Infinite from Finite, by Transcendental Reflection 21. Scotus''s Discovery of a New Path for Metaphysics--Intensities of Being 22.
Scotus''s Formal Distinction 23. The Intensional Object of Onto-theology as Transcendental Science 24. Phenomenological Reduction and the Univocity of Being 25. The Epistemological Turn in the Formal Understanding of Being 26. Signification of the Real and an Autonomous Sphere for Representation 27. Objective Representation--Beyond Naming and Desiring the Divine 28. Conceptual Production of "Objective" Being--The Way of Representation 29. From Logical (Dis)Analogy to Imaginative Conjecture versus the Forgetting of Being 30.
Reflective Repetition Realized in the Supersensible Reality of Willing 31. Fichte''s Absolutization--and Overcoming--of Self-Reflection 32. From Analogy to Metaphor 33. Univocity as Ground of the Autonomy of the Secular 34. The Fate of Negative Theology in Scotus 35. Coda on Scotus and Modality 36. Arabic Epistemology of Reflection of Transcendence PART III. The Origin of Language in Reflection and the Breaking of its Circuits: Overcoming the Age of Representation through Repetition 37.
The Tradition of Self-Reflection and Modern Self-Forgetting 38. The Original Event of Language in Modern Lyric Tradition 39. The New Rhetoric of Reflexivity in Geoffrey de Vinsauf 40. Poetic Self-Referentiality as Creative Source--From Paradiso to les Symbolistes 41. The Paradox of Lyric as Song of the Self--Deflected to the Other 42. Self and Other between Order and Chance--Ambiguity in Lyric Language 43. Language beyond Representation--Repetition and Performativity 44. Quest for the Origin of Language--From De vulgari eloquentia to the Paradiso 45.
Dante''s Recovery of Speculative Metaphysics as Productive 46. Referentially Empty Signs and Semiotic Plenitude 47. Sum--Lyric as Self-Manifestation of Language and its Ontological Power of Creation PART IV. Self-Reflection, Speculation, and Revelation: Modern Philosophy and the Linguistic Way to Wisdom in Western Tradition 48. Lacanian Psychoanalytics of Self-love: From the In-fantile to the Divine 49. Formal Linguistic Approaches to Self-Reflexivity 50. Formalist Theory of the Poem and Agamben''s "La fine del poema" 51. Self-Reflexivity and Self-Transcendence--Toward the Unknown 52.
The Ambiguity of Self-Reflection in Contemporary Thought and History 53. The Historical Turn of Self-Reflection in Vico''s New Science 54. Self-Reflexivity in Paradiso and the Secular Destiny of the West 55. Language as Speculative Mirroring of the Whole of Being in the Word--Gadamer 56. From Philosophical Idealism to Linguistic Ontology 57. Language as Revelation or Revealment 58. Language as Disclosure in Lyric Time: Heidegger, Heraclitus, and Unconcealment PART V. Dante''s Redemption of Narcissus and the Spiritual Vocation of Poetry as an Exercise in Self-Reflection 59.
Lyric Subjectivity and Narcissism--Totalization and Transcendence 60. Narcissus Redeemed--Positive Precedents from Plotinus 61. Lyric Self-Reflection and the Subversion of the Proper 62. Lyric Language as Spiritual Knowledge in its Sensual Immediacy--Orphic Echoes 63. The Exaltation of Technique in the Troubadours and in Dante''s Stony Rhymes 64. Lyric Reflexivity in Panoptic Historical-Philosophical Perspective 65. Romantic Singularity as a New Universal Reflexivity 66. Dante''s Narcissus Redeemed--A Perennial Paradigm for Contemporary Thought EPILOGUE.
Reflexive Stylistics in the Language of Paradiso POSTSCRIPT ON METHOD. From Genealogy to Apophatics INDEX.