Abstract

GONZALEZ DE REQUENA FARRE, Juan Antonio. On the Discourse of Regulae and the Modern Methodical Spirit. Eidos [online]. 2020, n.33, pp.105-137.  Epub May 22, 2021. ISSN 1692-8857.

Giorgio Agamben has characterized the monastic rules as the constitution of a way of life in which -beyond the law- the rule and the life become indiscernible. In this article we accept the invitation of Agamben to trace the semantic history of the lexicon of the rule and we wonder what happened when, in the first Modernity, the rules were extrapolated to the complete plot of the world of life, as in the methodical spirituality of Protestants and Jesuits. Through the analysis of one genre of discourse that illustrates the normative framing of modern practices in Protestant and Jesuit environments, the baroque books of regulae, we characterize a certain discursive and semiotic regime that served as a framework for modern methodical thought and its analytical rationalism.

Keywords : Rules; Protestantism; Jesuit spirituality; methodical thought.

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