Capitalism, separation and profanation. The critique of separation in Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

In "Praise of profanation," Giorgio Agamben places religion as that instance that separates the divine sphere and remains inaccessible to men: the sacred, thus, be constituted as an inaccessible area, segregated or separated from the human sphere. To desecrate, however, involves removing the barriers that establishes the separation, both religious and secular forms. What we discussed in the text is this struggle between separation and profanation, with the aim of showing that there is in the Agamben thinking a whole philosophical gesture very related, precisely, with the critique of separation