That essay appears in a volume by this writer arguing that "to profane" means to return a sacred concept to the "free use of men."
This philosopher wrote that we should "love" and "believe" our imaginations to the point of "destroying them" in an essay praising Orson Welles's depiction of a modern Don Quixote lunging at a movie screen as "The Six Most Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema." That essay appears in a volume by this writer arguing that "to profane" means to return a sacred concept to the "free use of men." Another of his books was largely inspired by an "esoteric dossier" containing a fight between Walter Benjamin and the fascist Carl Schmidt about whether violence should exceed the law. This author of Profanations uses the example of a figure who is stripped into a vita nuda and who can thus be killed with impunity in a book showing that the "nomos of the modern" consists of sovereigns using "inclusive exclusion" to create a "state of exception." For 10 points, name this Italian philosopher who wrote Homo Sacer.
This philosopher wrote that we should "love" and "believe" our imaginations to the point of "destroying them" in an essay praising Orson Welles's depiction of a modern Don Quixote lunging at a movie screen as "The Six Most Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema."
Giorgio Agamben