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Lädt ... Herrschaft und Herrlichkeit: Zur theologischen Genealogie von Ökonomie und Regierung. Homo sacer II.2 (edition suhrkamp)von Giorgio Agamben
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. El Reino y la Gloria - una genealogía teológica de la economía y del gobierno es el libro decisivo de una investigación sobre la genealogía del poder en Occidente, que Giorgio Agamben comenzó hace más de diez años con Homo sacer. La doble estructura de la máquina gubernamental, que en Estado de excepción aparecía en la correlación entre autoridad y potestad, toma aquí la forma de la articulación entre Reino y Gobierno y, por último, llega a interrogar la relación misma entre economía y Gloria, entre el poder como gobierno y gestión eficaz y el poder como majestuosidad ceremonial y litúrgica, dos aspectos que han quedado curiosamente descuidados tanto por los filósofos políticos como por los politólogos. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The work of the book is a Foucauldian (i.e. neo-Nietzschean) genealogy of "glory" as an operator in the conceptual justification of "economy" and "government"--that is, in the theological and political registers, respectively. (The ancient theological sense of "economy" is distinct from its modern significance.) It touches on esoteric fields such as Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, and Grail legendry. But it also traces its concerns through the vertebral canon of philosophy from Aristotle through Heidegger, as well as the entire span of Christian theology.
As The Sacrament of Language was trained on the performative language of the oath, so The Kingdom and the Glory in large measure revolves around the nature and function of acclamation. Section 8.19 in particular is a valuable inquiry into amen as "the acclamation par excellence" of Christian liturgy.
Some of the political consequences of the insights in this 2007 book seem to cast light on the fragility of the legislative function in putative democracies like that of Germany in the first part of the 20th century or the United States in the 21st. The sovereignty of the people is inadequately manifested by the legislature, which allows for the usurpation of its "kingdom" by the "government" of the executive, and the collapse of what Agamben calls in theology "the providential machine."
My hat is off to translators Chiesa and Mandarini, not only for making Agamben intelligible in English, and for keeping track of the various linguistic registers among which he navigates, but for introducing me to two English words. In the course of reading this book, I learned tralatitious (152) and epenetic (246). Also, I forgive them for using mythologeme in lieu of mytheme (106).
Consistent with my previous reading of Agamben, I found this book difficult and rewarding.