The highest poverty: monastic rules and form-of-life

What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the f...

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Contributors: Agamben, Giorgio 1942- (Other) ; Kotsko, Adam (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Stanford, Calif Stanford University Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Series/Journal:Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Meridian crossing aesthetics
Further subjects:B Monastic and religious life History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Monasticism and religious orders Rules
B Monastic and religious life ; Middle Ages
B Monastic and religious life History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B RELIGION ; Institutions & Organizations
B Electronic books
B History
B Rules
B Monasticism and religious orders
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