{"product_id":"what-is-an-apparatus-and-other-essays-paperback-softback-9780804762304","title":"\"What Is an Apparatus?\" and Other Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804762304","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003e\"What Is an Apparatus?\" and Other Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGiorgio Agamben (Author), David Kishik (Translated by), Stefan Pedatella (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804762304\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 May 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e80 pages\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 11.4 x 0.5 cm, 0.077 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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.\"—Seb Franklin, \u003ci\u003ePopular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Apparatus\" (\u003ci\u003edispositif\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003edispositif\u003c\/i\u003e?\") Deleuze managed to contribute its mystification, but Agamben's leading essay illuminates the notion: \"I will call an apparatus,\" he writes, \"literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings.\" Seen from this perspective, Agamben's work, like Foucault's, may be described as the identification and investigation of apparatuses, together with incessant attempts to find new ways to dismantle them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThough philosophy contains the notion of \u003ci\u003ephilos\u003c\/i\u003e, or friend, in its very name, philosophers tend to be very skeptical about friendship. In his second essay, Agamben tries to dispel this skepticism by showing that at the heart of friendship and philosophy, but also at the core of politics, lies the same experience: the shared sensation of being.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuided by the question, \"What does it mean to be contemporary?\" Agamben begins the third essay with a reading of Nietzsche's philosophy and Mandelstam's poetry, proceeding from these to an exploration of such diverse fields as fashion, neurophysiology, messianism and astrophysics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656055386392,"sku":"9780804762304","price":13.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-is-an-apparatus-and-other-essays-paperback-softback-9780804762304","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}