LEADER 02983nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910786121403321 005 20230803025653.0 010 $a0-8047-8674-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786744 035 $a(CKB)2670000000340166 035 $a(EBL)1155234 035 $a(OCoLC)831116705 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000854387 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12381050 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000854387 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10903128 035 $a(PQKB)10013241 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1155234 035 $a(DE-B1597)563878 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1155234 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676845 035 $a(OCoLC)1198931611 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000340166 100 $a20121012d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe highest poverty$b[electronic resource] $emonastic rules and form-of-life /$fGiorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (179 p.) 225 1 $aMeridian, crossing aesthetics 300 $a"Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima poverta? : Regole monastiche e forma di vita"--t.p. verso. 311 $a0-8047-8405-1 311 $a0-8047-8406-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; 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; Bibliography 330 $aWhat is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule?It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the fascinating and massive phenomenon of Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. The book reconstructs in detail the life of the monks with their obsessive attention to temporal articulation and to the Rule, to ascetic techniques and to liturgy. But Agamben's thesis is that the true no 410 0$aMeridian (Stanford, Calif.) 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders$xRules 606 $aMonastic and religious life$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders$xRules. 615 0$aMonastic and religious life$xHistory 676 $a255 700 $aAgamben$b Giorgio$f1942-$035813 701 $aKotsko$b Adam$0802578 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786121403321 996 $aThe highest poverty$93825440 997 $aUNINA