“What Is an Apparatus?” and Other Essays – $295
by rgonzalezr
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 […]
Categories: Ensayo, Filosofía, Teoría • Tags: 2009, Agamben, apparatus, Ensayo, filosofía, philosophy, Stanford University Press, Theory
