The Highest Poverty

cenoby” (koinos bios, the common life), the perfection of a common life in all and for all

And what is a human life, if it can no longer be distinguished from the rule?

radical reformulation of the very conceptuality that up until that moment articulated the relationship between human action and norm, “life” and “rule,

These are not, at least at first glance, juridical works, even though they claim to regulate, often in fine detail and through precise sanctions, the life of a group of individuals.

life that is linked so closely to its form that it proves to be inseparable from it

dialectic that thus comes to be established between the two terms rule and life.

which both rule and life lose their familiar meaning in order to point in the direction of a third thing.