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Giorgio Agamben

The Kingdom and the Glory

For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

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Why has power in the West assumed the form of an economy, that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it?In the early centuries of the Church, in order to reconcile monotheism with God's threefold nature, the doctrine of Trinity was introduced in the guise of an economy of divine life. It was as if the Trinity amounted to nothing more than a problem of managing and governing the heavenly house and the world. Agamben shows that, when combined with the idea of providence, this theological-economic paradigm une… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Chiesa, Lorenzo (Übers.) / Mandarini, Matteo (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8047-8166-4
  • EAN: 9780804781664
  • Produktnummer: 23012032
  • Verlag: Stanford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 328 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'134 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den 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 works available in English translation from Stanford University Press include What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays (2009), Nudities (2010), and The Sacrament of Language(2011).

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