Agamben Giorgio
Agamben Giorgio - The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules And Form - Of - Life - Paperback
Agamben Giorgio - The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules And Form - Of - Life - Paperback
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Description: 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?
Title: The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules And Form - Of - Life
Author(s): Agamben Giorgio
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Barcode: 9780804784061
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2013
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Category: Religious Institutions & Organizations
Description: 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?
Title: The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules And Form - Of - Life
Author(s): Agamben Giorgio
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Barcode: 9780804784061
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2013
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Category: Religious Institutions & Organizations
