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"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays

By Giorgio Agamben, David Kishik (Translator), Stefan Pedatella (Translator)
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By Giorgio Agamben, David Kishik (Translator), Stefan Pedatella (Translator)
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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...

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