by Giorgio Agamben · Adriana Hidalgo Editora · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789871156344
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Profanations is an essay by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben that explores the relationship between the sacred and the profane, culture and politics. Through a series of reflections on various topics, such as play, language, childhood, and cinema, Agamben proposes a critique of contemporary society and a vindication of profane experience as a form of resistance and liberation. The book invites us to rethink the traditional categories of thought and to explore new ways of life beyond the impositions of power.
Giorgio Agamben is an Italian philosopher whose work spans political theory, ontology, aesthetics, and literature. He is best known for developing the concept of homo sacer and exploring the relationship between sovereignty, legal authority, and what he calls 'bare life'. His writings draw on sources including Aristotle, Roman law, Christian theology, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, St. Augustine and Carl Schmitt among others, and engage critically with Michel Foucault’s account of biopolitics and biopower. Agamben’s multi-volume Homo Sacer project has been widely discussed within political philosophy, jurisprudence, anthropology, and the humanities, and he is considered one of the most influential writers in contemporary continental philosophy.
