Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing by Giorgio Agamben,Adam Kotsko

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By Giorgio Agamben,Adam Kotsko

during this follow-up to The state and the Glory and The optimum Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our ethical inspiration of responsibility within the concept and perform of Christian liturgy. starting with the hot testomony and dealing via to overdue scholasticism and smooth papal encyclicals, Agamben lines the Church's makes an attempt to copy Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. the most important here's the paradoxical determine of the priest, who turns into a growing number of a natural software of God's strength, in order that his personal factors and personality are completely detached so long as he consists of out his priestly tasks. In modernity, Agamben argues, the Christian priest has turn into the version moral topic. We see this notably in Kantian ethics. Contrasting the Christian and smooth ontology of accountability with the classical ontology of being, Agamben contends that Western philosophy has opened up within the pressure among the 2. This newest installment within the examine of Western political constructions started in Homo Sacer is a contribution to the examine of liturgy, an extension of Nietzsche's family tree of morals, and a remodeling of Heidegger's heritage of Being.

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