The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life

What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human...
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Author: Giorgio Agamben
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Language: English
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The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life by Agamben, Giorgio

The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life

Dhs. 123.98

The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life

Dhs. 123.98
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion between life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension, in which life as such, perhaps for the first time, is affirmed in its autonomy, and in which the claim of the highest poverty and use challenges the law in ways that we must still grapple with today.

How can we think a form-of-life, that is, a human life released from the grip of law, and a use of bodies and of the world that never becomes an appropriation? How can we think life as something not subject to ownership but only for common use?



Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 05/01/2013
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.58w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780804784061


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2013

About the Author
Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and political theorist, teaches at the IUAV University in Venice and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School. His most recent book available in English from Stanford University Press is The Kingdom and the Glory (2011).

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