'What Is an Apparatus?' and Other Essays

Zusatztext "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." Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on the singular relation with one's own time that we call contemporariness. Zusammenfassung The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on the singular relation with one's own time that we call contemporariness.

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• Authors: Giorgio Agamben, Giorgio/ Kishik Agamben
• Assisted by: David Kishik (Translation), Stefan Pedatella (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2009
• EAN: 9780804762298
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6229-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics; Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day