What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays]]stanford University Press]bc]b102]05/01/2009]phi019000]160]16.95]21.95]ip]ac]r]r]stan]]]01/01/0001]p080]stan

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762309
• ISBN13: 9780804762304
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 6.8"