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Giorgio Agamben - What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays - 9780804762304 - V9780804762304
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What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays

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Description for What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays Paperback. Collects essays that offer an introduction to the author's work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time. Translator(s): Kishik, David; Pedatella, Stefan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 116 x 6. Weight in Grams: 80.

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time.

"Apparatus" (dispositif in French) is at once a most ubiquitous and nebulous concept in Foucault's later thought. In a text bearing the same name ("What is a dispositif?") Deleuze managed to contribute its mystification, but Agamben's leading essay illuminates the notion: "I will call an apparatus," he writes, "literally anything ... Read more

Though philosophy contains the notion of philos, or friend, in its very name, philosophers tend to be very skeptical about friendship. In his second essay, Agamben tries to dispel this skepticism by showing that at the heart of friendship and philosophy, but also at the core of politics, lies the same experience: the shared sensation of being.

Guided by the question, "What does it mean to be contemporary?" Agamben begins the third essay with a reading of Nietzsche's philosophy and Mandelstam's poetry, proceeding from these to an exploration of such diverse fields as fashion, neurophysiology, messianism and astrophysics.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762304
SKU
V9780804762304
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About Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben, a leading Italian philosopher and radical political theorist, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. Stanford University Press has published six of his previous books: Homo Sacer (1998), Potentialities (1999), The Man Without Content (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), The Open (2004), and The Time that Remains (2005).

Reviews for What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays
"What is remarkable about Agamben's claim is the range of cultural practices that it incorporates . . . A rigorous engagement with these experiential elements, grounded in rigorous historical, technical, and theoretical methods."—Seb Franklin, Popular Culture

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