Find the transcript of Agamben’s lecture on the concept of paradigm at http://ppw.kuleuven.be/ecs/les/bestanden/Tekstbestanden/Agamben%20-%20What%20is%20a%20paradigm%202002.pdf

Agamben’s lecture touches on many methodological issues that are and have been in the past very important for Dip14. In the lecture Bentham’s Panopticon – through Foucault’s reading – is taken as example of paradigmatic use of an artifact as key to read a whole cultural context.

Eliade is perhaps the most influential historian of religion of the XX century. His main contribution is the definition of the concept of the sacred as category. Find his book The Sacred and the Profane in pdf format at: https://www.dmt-nexus.me/doc/The%20Sacred%20And%20The%20Profane.pdf