02983nam 2200625 a 450 991078612140332120230803025653.00-8047-8674-710.1515/9780804786744(CKB)2670000000340166(EBL)1155234(OCoLC)831116705(SSID)ssj0000854387(PQKBManifestationID)12381050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000854387(PQKBWorkID)10903128(PQKB)10013241(MiAaPQ)EBC1155234(DE-B1597)563878(DE-B1597)9780804786744(Au-PeEL)EBL1155234(CaPaEBR)ebr10676845(OCoLC)1198931611(EXLCZ)99267000000034016620121012d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe highest poverty[electronic resource] monastic rules and form-of-life /Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam KotskoStanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20131 online resource (179 p.)Meridian, crossing aesthetics"Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita"--t.p. verso.0-8047-8405-1 0-8047-8406-X Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; I. Rule and Life; 1. Birth of the Rule; 2. Rule and Law; 3. Flight from the World and Constitution; Threshold; II. Liturgy and Rule; 1. Regula Vitae; 2. Orality and Writing; 3. The Rule as a Liturgical Text; Threshold; III. Form-of-Life; 1. The Discovery of Life; 2. Renouncing Law; 3. Highest Poverty and Use; Threshold; BibliographyWhat 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 noMeridian (Stanford, Calif.)Monasticism and religious ordersRulesMonastic and religious lifeHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Monasticism and religious ordersRules.Monastic and religious lifeHistory255Agamben Giorgio1942-35813Kotsko Adam802578MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786121403321The highest poverty3825440UNINA