Opus Dei
An Archaeology of Duty
In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical figure of the priest, who becomes more and more a pure instrument of God's power, so that his own motives and character are entirely indifferent as long as he carries out his priestly duties. In modernity, Agamben argues, the Christian priest has becom…
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Weitere Autoren: Kotsko, Adam (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8047-8856-4
- EAN: 9780804788564
- Produktnummer: 23012236
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 164 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'918 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Giorgio Agamben Translated by Adam Kotsko
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