"e;What Is an Apparatus?"e; and Other Essays
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 conc...
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 conc...
