Research Catalog

Title

Adventures with the theory of the Baroque and French philosophy / Nadir Lahiji.

Author

Lahiji, Nadir, 1948-

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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Description

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Architecture > Philosophy
• Aesthetics, French
• Aesthetics, Baroque

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Philosophy, architecture, and the baroque subject to truth -- Excursus: variations on the theme of baroque theory and philosophy -- The philosophical theory of baroque -- The baroque and jouissance: Jacques Lacan -- The baroque and the fold: Gilles Deleuze -- Interlude 1: theorization of baroque as event -- Modernity, madness, and the baroque criticism -- Cogito and the baroque in the age of reason: reading Foucault -- Baroque reason and the madness of vision: reading Buci-Glucksmann -- Theology and the baroque room: reading Benjamin -- Culture industry and the (neo- )baroque: reading Adorno -- Architecture and the theory of the baroque -- The misadventure of architecture with French philosophy -- Digital neobaroque and the hyper-Deleuzeans of architecture -- Against the architectural reading of the fold -- The draped neobaroque: is it possible not to love Frank Gehry? -- Interlude: post-rationalism and theorization of the baroque as real -- Post-rationalism and the adventure with french philosophy -- De-suturing architecture: philosophy and anti-philosophy -- Capitalism, idolatry, and critique of neobaroque ideology -- The missed encounter of architecture with post-rationalism.

ISBN

• 9781474228541
• 1474228542

LCCN

• 2016012988
• 40026448150

OCLC

• ocn912382848
• 912382848
• SCSB-5867878

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries