"Agamben's Philosophical Classics (Set of 3 Volumes)" Author: [Italy] Giorgio Agamben Publisher: Peking University Press

[1] On Fraternity is a book consisting of three articles: What is a Device?, On Fraternity, and The Church and the Kingdom.

1. In What is an Apparatus?, Agamben explains the concept of an apparatus: an apparatus is the intersection of power relations and knowledge relations.

2. In On Friendship, Agamben explains love: 1. There is a pure sense of existence, a sense of being [aisthēsis]. 2. This sense of existence itself is sweet (hēdys). 3. There is a certain equivalence between being and living, between feeling someone's presence and feeling someone's life. Such a statement must be a preparation for Nietzsche's thesis: existence - we have no other way to imagine it except "living".

3. In The Church and the Kingdom, theological thinking is added to discuss the issue of power relations.

[2] In the 10 essays included in Blasphemy, Agamben considers a series of literary and philosophical issues: the relationship between patron saints, the self, and various theories of subjectivity; the question of messianic time as illuminated in images and life experience; parody as a literary paradigm; and the potential of magic to provide ethical standards.

The breadth of topics and themes addressed in this book is a testament to the creativity of Agamben’s unique way of thinking and his ongoing focus on the sometimes futile, sometimes fruitful, act of bearing witness.

【3】Nude consists of 10 independent essays, and the title is taken from the seventh chapter. In this book, Agamben explores a series of issues such as creation and redemption, contemporaneity, the ghosts of Venice, personal identity, the glorious body of resurrection, and nudity. However, the seemingly scattered chapter structure is permeated with the same theme, which is to use non-functional concepts to explore the construction of work and function in various existing orders, thereby opening up various possibilities based on the criticism of reality and concepts. This is also the theoretical effort that Agamben has always made as a political philosopher.