The highest poverty : monastic rules and form-of-life / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko.
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 f...
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| Other title: | Altissima povertà. English |
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| Language: | English Italian |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
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Table of Contents:
- Rule and life. Birth of the rule
- Rule and law
- Flight from the world and constitution
- Threshold
- Liturgy and rule. Regula vitae
- Orality and writing
- The rule as a liturgical text
- Threshold
- Form-of-life. The discovery of life
- Renouncing law
- Highest poverty and use
- Threshold.