03548cam a2200553Ka 4500 ocn831116705 OCoLC 20200709060106.0 m d cr ||| 130323s2013 cau ob 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP OCLCO YDXCP GZM DRU N$T 9780804786744 (electronic bk.) 0804786747 (electronic bk.) 9780804784054 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804784061 (pbk. : alk. paper) NLGGC 372452302 (OCoLC)831116705 713567 (N$T) BX2436.A3313 2013 REL 016000 bisacsh 206.57 255 N$TA Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- author. Altissima povertà. English The highest poverty [electronic resource] : monastic rules and form-of-life / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (xiii, 157 p.) Meridian, crossing aesthetics "Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita." Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-157). Rule and life. Birth of the rule -- Rule and law -- Flight from the world and constitution -- Threshold -- Liturgy and rule. Regula vitae -- Orality and writing -- The rule as a liturgical text -- Threshold -- Form-of-life. The discovery of life -- Renouncing law -- Highest poverty and use -- Threshold. 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. Description based upon print version of record. Monasticism and religious orders Rules. Monastic and religious life History Middle Ages, 600-1500. RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations bisacsh Electronic books. Kotsko, Adam, translator. Print version: Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- Altissima povertà. English. Highest poverty. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013 9780804784054 (DLC) 2012041964 (OCoLC)814301933 Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=1155234 Ebook Library EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=713567 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1155234 YBP Library Services YANK 10374964 EBSCOhost EBSC 713567 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 54606 54606