The highest poverty : monastic rules and form-of-life / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-

Contributor:

Kotsko, Adam.

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Standardized Title:

Altissima povertà. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--Rules.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Monastic and religious life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Monastic and religious life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

"Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780804786744

0804786747

OCLC:

831116705