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Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Paperback – September 18, 2013

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  • Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
  • Paperback: 164 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press (September 18, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804784043
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804784047
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsOn the Maligned Ethics of Operativity
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Continuing his recent engagement with the rich and labyrinthine inheritance of the Christian tradition, in Opus Dei (‘work of God’), Giorgio Agamben traces the way in which, from its obscure origins in the early institutionalization of the Church, the concept of ‘duty’ was incorporated into the sphere of modern ethics. While it’s clear that Agamben is no fan of duty (referring to its appropriation in Kant as an ‘aberrant idea’), his antipathy towards the notion doesn’t hamper the sensitivity and subtlety with which he explores it’s modulations from Aristotle to Kant via doctrinal teachings of the Church. Indeed, although Kant marks the zenith point at which duty and ethics become inseparably bound, Agamben argues that it’s only thanks to a ‘centuries-long praxis and theorisation’ on the part of the Church that Kant was able to get his ethical project off the ground to begin with. And it's just to this historically extended elaboration that Opus Dei investigates.

Specifically, Agamben traces the germinal seeds of ethical duty to the way in which the ‘priesthood’ of Jesus – in whom the work of salvation coincided with his deific person – was slowly but surely transformed by the Church in order to define the function of the clergy – whose priestly ‘office’, by contrast, remained utterly indifferent to his individual character or person. In this way, the priest becomes something like an instrument of God, in whom and through which God works.Read more ›
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