1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0113262

Titolo

High performance computing in science and engineering '14 : Transactions of the High performance computing center, Stuttgart (HLRS) 2014 / Wolfgang E. Nagel, Dietmar H. Kröner, Michael M. Resch editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

XIII, 691 p., : ill. ; 24 cm

Edizione

[[Cham] : Springer, 2015]

Descrizione fisica

Pubblicazione in formato elettronico

Soggetti

65Cxx - Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787311803321

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

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