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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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Stanford, Calif
Stanford University Press
2013
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| Dans: | Année: 2013 |
| Collection/Revue: | Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Meridian crossing aesthetics |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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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| Résumé: | 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 fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy. But Agamben's thesis is that the true novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion between life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension, in which "life" as such, perhaps for the first time, is affirmed in its autonomy, and in which the claim of the "highest poverty" and "use" challenges the law in ways that we must still grapple with today |
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| Description: | "Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-157). - Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0804786747 |