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

• Autore: Agamben Giorgio <1942->
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8047-8674-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811002403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)