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What is an apparatus? -- The friend -- What is the contemporary?

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confrontations with.

The original French term dispositif is rendered variously as 'dispositif', 'apparatus' and 'deployment' in English translations of Foucault's work. (5) In the slim volume What is an Apparatus? (and other essays) Giorgio Agamben traces out several journeys that the critical idea of an apparatus must have travelled.

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.

Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life; Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive; Profanations; The Signature of All Things: On Method, and other books.Through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s he treated a wide range of topics, including aesthetics, literature.

The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life is one of the most recent examinations in the Anglophone world of the philosopher's controversial thought. The essays brought together by Clemens et al. follow in the wake of an earlier collection, Giorgio Agamben: Sovereignty and Life, edited by Matthew Calarco and Steven DeCaroli and published by Stanford in 2007, which mounted a sustained.

In recent years the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has become one of the most vital and most discussed figures in academia. 1 But as with other major figures such as Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou, Agamben’s name and influence have spread beyond the narrow confines of the academy. He has become increasingly well known particularly over the last decade and a half, mainly.

Abstract. In this chapter, the author explores the educational relevance of Italian critical theorist Giorgio Agamben. In particular, the author highlights three methodological points related to Agamben’s work that are important for rethinking educational philosophy: suspension, archeology of the signature, and study.

This review essay of Giorgio Agamben's book State of Exception argues that the theory of emergency powers presented in the book, while original and valuable, both misapprehends the significance of.

Cinema and Agamben brings together a group of established scholars of film and visual culture to explore the nexus between the moving image and the influential work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Including two original texts by Agamben himself, published here for the first time in English translation, these essays facilitate a unique multidisciplinary conversation that fundamentally.

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In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself.Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of.