Rafał Zawisza

I focus on the monastery life in Europe and its predomination of vita contemplativa upon vita activa. It is not hard to distinguish within Christianity its Manichaean component whose characteristic feature is a grudge against matter, body and sexuality. This complexity of ideas brought about the contempt of vital elements of human existence, so that its animal past, still present in Zivilisationsprozess. An alternative anthropology inspired by an evolutionism should based on the presumption that only through the appreciation of an animal dimension of us—instead of monastic desire of becoming an angel—will it be possible to create new perspectives for renegotiation of the human–animal boundaries

CFP ECONOMIC THEOLOGY The theoretical endeavour of Giorgio Agamben known under the name of homo sacer is drawing to an end. Thus, it is a time for a summary. Throughout the years the Italian thinker put an emphasis on unmasking the model of sovereign power, which was shifted to an area of economic theology. It touches the complementary paradigm of government, namely the administration and governmental efficiency. In this theoretical framework the schemas of a new policy and ethics emerge and are visible in a controversial notion: “form-of-life”. Thus we invite authors to submit articles in order to ponder over recent works of the Italian philosopher in the context of polemics evoked by them.