Agamben Giorgio - The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules And Form - Of - Life - Paperback GOOD MEMORY Publication Date: 8/18/2011

Publication Date: 8/18/2011

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Agamben Giorgio - The Highest Poverty Monastic Rules And Form - Of - Life - Paperback GOOD MEMORY Publication Date: 8/18/2011Binding: Paperback Description: 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