Opus Dei : an archaeology of duty / 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:

Opus Dei. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liturgics.

Duty.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical figure of the priest, who becomes more and more a pure instrument of God's power, so that his own motives and character are entirely indifferent as long as he carries out his priestly duties. In moderni

Contents:

Contents; Translator's Note; Preface; 1 - Liturgy and Politics; Threshold; 2 - From Mystery to Effect; Threshold; 3 - A Genealogy of Office; Threshold; 4 - The Two Ontologies; or, How Duty Entered into Ethics; Threshold; Bibliography

Notes:

"Originally published in Italian under the title Opus Dei. Archaeologia dell'ufficio."

ISBN:

9780804788564

0804788561

OCLC:

854977388