Highest Poverty - Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life

Zusatztext "Like much of Agamben's writing, The Highest Poverty mixes historical, philosophical, and philological discourse with impressive skill. Agamben's book provokes insight through juxtaposition, analogy, and acts of theoretical imagination." Informationen zum Autor Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and political theorist, teaches at the IUAV University in Venice and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School. His most recent book available in English from Stanford University Press is The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). Klappentext Giorgio Agamben, an Italian philosopher and political theorist, teaches at the IUAV University in Venice and holds the Baruch Spinoza Chair at the European Graduate School. His most recent book available in English from Stanford University Press is The Kingdom and the Glory (2011). Zusammenfassung In this book, Agamben investigates monasticism from its beginnings up through the Franciscan movement in an attempt to find a new form-of-life that escapes from the logic of Western politics as put forth in his Homo Sacer series.

Product details

• Authors: Giorgio Agamben
• Assisted by: Adam Kotsko (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2013
• EAN: 9780804784061
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8406-1
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 220 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics; Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions