Highest Poverty Agamben Giorgio
Highest Poverty Agamben Giorgio What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns by means of an impassioned reading of the…
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Highest Poverty Agamben Giorgio
What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? 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. 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?
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. 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.
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