What is the rule , if it seems to merge with life without a trace? And what is human life, In each of his letters, , in every word , It is to these questions that Agamben's new book seeks to answer by enthusiastically re-reading that fascinating and bottomless phenomenon. which represents Western monasticism from Pachomius to St. Francis. Although the book reconstructs the life of the monks in detail with her obsessive attention to counting time and to the rule, Ascetic Techniques and Liturgy , Agamben's thesis is nevertheless that, that the true novelty of monasticism is not in the blending of life and norm, but in the opening of a new dimension, in which , Possibly , for the first time "life" as such is asserted in its autonomy, and the claim of "highest poverty" and "use" challenges the right, What time we will have to face face . In a4. format pdf saved publishing layout.