Opening book details…
Can I read "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) on EtoBox?
"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) about?
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.<br> <br> "Apparatus" (<i>dispositif</i> 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 <i>dispos
Who reads "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Giorgio Agamben
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804762298
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Political, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.09 / 5 (221 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
More by Giorgio Agamben
Browse all works by Giorgio Agamben
Similar books
- What Is Philosophy? (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — Lorenzo Chiesa Giorgio Agamben (2017)
- Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — Giorgio Agamben (2015)
- What Is Real? (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — Giorgio Agamben; Lorenzo Chiesa (2018)
- On the Name (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — Thomas Dutoit Jacques Derrida (1995)
- The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — Giorgio Agamben; Georgia Albert (2008)
- Nudities (meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — Giorgio Agamben (2011)
