1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009274370403321

Autore

Plebe, Armando <1927- >

Titolo

Breve storia della retorica antica / Armando Plebe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma ; Bari : Laterza, 1988

ISBN

88-420-3017-1

Descrizione fisica

128 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

Universale Laterza ; 715

Disciplina

808.0481

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

Collez. 144 (715)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463114103321

Autore

Agamben Giorgio <1942->

Titolo

Opus Dei [[electronic resource] ] : an archaeology of duty / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8856-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Meridian : crossing aesthetics

Altri autori (Persone)

KotskoAdam

Disciplina

264/.02

Soggetti

Liturgics

Duty

Ontology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in Italian under the title Opus Dei. Archaeologia dell'ufficio."



Nota di contenuto

Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; 1 - Liturgy and Politics; Threshold; 2 - From Mystery to Effect; Threshold; 3 - A Genealogy of Office; Threshold; 4 - The Two Ontologies;  or, How Duty Entered into Ethics; Threshold; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical figure of the priest, who becomes more and more a pure instrument of God's power, so that his own motives and character are entirely indifferent as long as he carries out his priestly duties. In moderni