Profanações by Giorgio Agamben
A compact collection of philosophical reflections that examines how the sacralization of concepts, objects and institutions governs modern life and political power, and proposes the practice of ‘profanation’ — returning things to common use — as a means to dismantle those hierarchies. Through analyses of language, law, ritual and art, the essays trace how the boundary between sacred and profane produces exclusion and exception, and explore small, concrete gestures that can reclaim shared spaces and gestures for collective life. The book is less a program than an experimental meditation on how to transform the conditions that make domination appear natural and irreversible.
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- 2005
- Nationality
- Italian
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- Original Language
- Italian
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