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The Kingdom and the Glory

For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government

Pocket
Engelsk
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
The Kingdom and the Glory
The Kingdom and the Glory
  • Forfatter: Giorgio Agamben
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 328
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
  • EAN: 9780804760164
  • Utgivelsesår: 2011
  • Bidragsyter: Agamben, Giorgio
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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 unexpectedly lies at the origin of many of the most important categories of modern politics, from the democratic theory of the division of powers to the strategic doctrine of collateral damage, from the invisible hand of Smith''s liberalism to ideas of order and security.

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