"What is an apparatus?" and other essays
By: Giorgio Agamben ; translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella.
Series: Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804762298; 9780804762304
Subjects: Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984; Power (Philosophy); Knowledge, Theory of; Friendship; Contemporary, The
Work titles: Essays.
Notes: What is an apparatus? was originally published in Italian in 2006 under the title: Che cos'è un dispositivo?; The friend was originally published in Italian in 2007 under the title: L'amico; and, What is the contemporary? was originally published in Italian in 2008 under the title: Che cos'è il contemporaneo.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What is an apparatus?; title: The friend; title: What is the contemporary?