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Extreme Poverty: Monastic Rules and Lifestyle

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What is a rule if it seems to merge completely with life? And what is human life if in every gesture, every word, every silence it cannot be distinguished from the rule?

It is precisely these questions that Agamben's new book seeks to answer through a captivating rereading of the captivating and profound phenomenon that is Western monasticism from Pachomius to Saint Francis. Although the book meticulously reconstructs the lives of monks, with their obsessive attention to timekeeping and the rule, to ascetic techniques and liturgy, Agamben's thesis nonetheless remains that the true novelty of monasticism lies not in the confusion of life and norm, but in the discovery of a new dimension in which, perhaps for the first time, "life" as such is affirmed in its autonomy, and the claim to "ultimate poverty" and "use" poses a challenge to law that our time will yet have to confront.
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