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The Highest Poverty

Monastic Rules And Form Of Life

Author : Agamben, Giorgio

Editor: Hamacher, Werner.

Compiler / Translator: Kotsko, Adam

Publisher: Standford University Press

Place of Publish: USA, Caliornia

Year: 2013

Page Numbers: 157

Acc. No: 4886

Class No: 301 AGA

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Sociology and Anthropology

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-0-8047-8406-1

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.How can we think a form-of-life, that is, a human life released from the grip of law, and a use of bodies and of the world that never becomes an appropriation How can we think life as something not subject to ownership but only for common useBlurb source- Google books https://books.google.lk/books/about/The_Highest_Poverty.htmlid=CmpmMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y