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The highest poverty [[electronic resource] ] : monastic rules and form-of-life / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko



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Autore: Agamben Giorgio <1942-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The highest poverty [[electronic resource] ] : monastic rules and form-of-life / / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
Disciplina: 255
Soggetto topico: Monasticism and religious orders - Rules
Monastic and religious life - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: KotskoAdam  
Note generali: "Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita"--t.p. verso.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Bibliography
Sommario/riassunto: What 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
Titolo autorizzato: The highest poverty  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-8674-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462895303321
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Serie: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)