The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-Of-Life

By Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080478406X
• ISBN13: 9780804784061
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"