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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781477603321

Autore

Agamben Giorgio <1942->

Titolo

The kingdom and the glory [[electronic resource] ] : for a theological genealogy of economy and government / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Lorenzo Chiesa (with Matteo Mandarini)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-8166-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Altri autori (Persone)

ChiesaLorenzo

MandariniMatteo

Disciplina

201/.72

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Power (Philosophy)

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in Italian under the title Il Regno e la Gloria."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; 1. The Two Paradigms; 2. The Mystery of the Economy; 3. Being and Acting; 4. The Kingdom and the Government; 5. The Providential Machine; 6. Angelology and Bureaucracy; 7. The Power and the Glory; 8. The Archaeology of Glory; Appendix: The Economy of the Moderns; Notes; References

Sommario/riassunto

Why has power in the West assumed the form of an ""economy,"" that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of an economy of divine life. It was as if the Trinity amounted to nothing more than a problem of managing and governing the heavenly house and the world. Agamben shows that, when combined