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Opus Dei - An Archaeology of Duty (Hardcover)
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Opus Dei - An Archaeology of Duty (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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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
become the model ethical subject. We see this above all in Kantian
ethics. Contrasting the Christian and modern ontology of duty with
the classical ontology of being, Agamben contends that Western
philosophy has unfolded in the tension between the two. This latest
installment in the study of Western political structures begun in
"Homo Sacer" is a contribution to the study of liturgy, an
extension of Nietzsche's genealogy of morals, and a reworking of
Heidegger's history of Being.
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