The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life
(Part of the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series and Homo Sacer Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080478406X
ISBN13:9780804784061
Release Date:May 2013
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"
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