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100	1		_aAgamben, Giorgio, _d1942- _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aAltissima povertà. _lEnglish
245	1	4	_aThe highest poverty _h[electronic resource] : _bmonastic rules and form-of-life / _cGiorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko.
260			_aStanford, Calif. : _bStanford University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 157 p.)
490	1		_aMeridian, crossing aesthetics
500			_a"Originally published in Italian under the title Altissima povertà : Regole monastiche e forma di vita."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 147-157).
505	0	0	_gRule and life. _tBirth of the rule -- _tRule and law -- _tFlight from the world and constitution -- _tThreshold -- _gLiturgy and rule. _tRegula vitae -- _tOrality and writing -- _tThe rule as a liturgical text -- _tThreshold -- _gForm-of-life. _tThe discovery of life -- _tRenouncing law -- _tHighest poverty and use -- _tThreshold.
520			_aWhat 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.
588			_aDescription based upon print version of record.
650		0	_aMonasticism and religious orders _xRules.
650		0	_aMonastic and religious life _xHistory _yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Institutions & Organizations _2bisacsh
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aKotsko, Adam, _etranslator.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aAgamben, Giorgio, 1942- _sAltissima povertà. English. _tHighest poverty. _dStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013 _z9780804784054 _w(DLC) 2012041964 _w(OCoLC)814301933
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