The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Days
In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics, is exemplary in an age when the question of legitimacy has been virtually left aside in favor of a narrow focus on legality. This reflection on the recent history of the Church opens out into an analysis of one of the earliest documents of Christianity: the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, which stages a dramatic confrontation between the man of lawlessness and the enigmatic kat…
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Weitere Autoren: Kotsko, Adam (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5036-0273-1
- EAN: 9781503602731
- Produktnummer: 22038664
- Verlag: Stanford Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H17.8 cm x B11.6 cm x D0.9 cm 81 g
- Gewicht: 81
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Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is The Fire and the Tale (2017).
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