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- English
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K?jin Karatani's Philosophy of Architecture
About this book
In this book, Nadir Lahiji introduces K?jin Karatani's theoretical-philosophical project and demonstrates its affinity with Kant's critical philosophy founded on 'architectonic reason'. From the ancient Greeks we have inherited a definition of the word 'philosophy' as Sophia—wisdom. But in his book Architecture as Metaphor K?jin Karatani introduces a different definition of philosophy. Here, Karatani critically defines philosophy not in association with Sophia but in relation to foundation as the Will to Architecture. In this novel definition resides the notion that in Western thought a crisis persistently reveals itself with every attempt to build a system of knowledge on solid ground. This book reveals the implications of this extraordinary exposition. This is the first book to uncover K?jin Karatani's highly significant ideas on architecture for both philosophical and architectural audiences.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction: From Sophia to the Will to Architecture
- 1 Foundationalism, Reason, and Building Metaphor
- 2 The Thing-in-Itself: Karatani and the Kantian Turn
- 3 Kant on the Tower of Babel and the Architectonic of Pure Reason
- 4 Architectonics and Mathematical Foundations
- 5 Architecture and Conflict of the Faculties
- 6 Constructivism: From Parmenides to Kant
- 7 Marx and Architectonics
- 8 The Architect and the Philosopher-King: A Reading of Paul Valéry
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index