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 concept in Foucault's later thought. In a text bearing the same name ("What is a dispositif?") 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.
Though philosophy contains the notion of philos, 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.
Guided 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.
1 有用 max 2015-04-16 09:35:04
What is contemporary? 寫得太好了。
0 有用 玛利亚保佑 2018-10-24 16:43:58
阿甘本还是比较言之有物
0 有用 眼肌折腾牛油果 2019-03-12 09:25:31
0 有用 すず 2023-10-06 20:51:38 英国
借德里达的时候偶然发现的一本小书,阿甘本真是厉害啊
0 有用 草莓 2023-03-25 16:01:59 上海
The present is nothing other than this unlived element in everything that is lived.
0 有用 Bill 2024-05-16 15:12:00 江苏
Contemporariness is, then, a singular relationship with one's own time, which adheres to it and. at the same time, keeps a distance from it. More precisely, it is that relationship with time that adhe... Contemporariness is, then, a singular relationship with one's own time, which adheres to it and. at the same time, keeps a distance from it. More precisely, it is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disjunction and an anachronism. Those who coincide too well with the epoch, those who are perfectly tied to it in every respect. (展开)
0 有用 狄拉克之海 2024-02-28 20:46:57 山东
经典文本总是简短精炼的
0 有用 すず 2023-10-06 20:51:38 英国
借德里达的时候偶然发现的一本小书,阿甘本真是厉害啊
0 有用 Concursum 2023-05-27 17:34:32 福建
定义比别的地方清楚
0 有用 碎步湖上 2023-04-14 22:06:13 中国香港
待寫notes/yysy过了一个月完全忘了..所以apparatus是什么(痴呆..