Main entry:

Cacciari, Massimo, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and nihilism : on the philosophy of modern architecture / Massimo Cacciari ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli ; introduction by Patrizia Lombardo.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]

Description:

lviii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism

Notes:
Essays substantially revised and translated for this publication.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246).
Introduction: The Philosophy of the City / Patrizia Lombardo -- pt. I. The Dialectics of the Negative and the Metropolis -- 1. Metropolis -- 2. On the German Sociology of the City at the Turn of the Century -- 3. Merchants and Heroes -- 4. Negative Thought and Artistic Representation -- 5. Essay and Tragedy -- 6. The City as Essay -- pt. II. Loos and His Contemporaries -- 7. Loosian Dialectics -- 8. The Contemporaries -- 9. The Oikos of Wittgenstein -- pt. III. Loos and His Angel -- 10. Loos and His Angel -- 11. Being Loyal -- 12. The Other -- 13. Tabula Rasa -- 14. The New Space -- 15. The House -- 16. Lou's Buttons -- 17. The Chain of Glass -- 18. Of Progress and Pioneers -- 19. On Loos's Tomb -- Epilogue: On the Architecture of Nihilism.
Translation from the Italian.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Massimo Cacciari, one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today, is the founder of the trend of criticism known as "negative thought" that focuses on the failure of traditional logic to explicate the problems of modernity. This book, which introduces his writings to an English-speaking audience, provides a striking social and philosophical account of the twentieth-century metropolis. Patrizia Lombardo's extensive introduction situates Cacciari's thought within the milieu of Italian political activism and philosophy between the 1960s and the 1980s, from his collaboration on the leftist journal Contropiano to his long association with Manfredo Tafuri."
"Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society. He begins by defining the modern metropolis, using the terms and ideas of Georg Simmel and Max Weber, but revealing where their frameworks are limited. He then examines the work of Adolf Loos and other architects and designers in early twentieth-century Vienna, showing how their architecture and criticism expose the alienation and utopianism in notions of the organic city. Cacciari demonstrates how architecture intersects with the city and the state but also with the interior of the private dwelling and with its resistance to the external world. Bringing together philosophy, sociology, urbanism, labor history, economics, and aesthetics, he helps us comprehend via these disciplines a crucial period in the history of modernity."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300052154 (alkaline paper)
9780300052152 (alkaline paper)
0300063040
9780300063042

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Negativity (Philosophy)
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
Négativité (Philosophie)
Architecture, Modern Philosophy
Bouwkunst.
Filosofische aspecten.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Nihilisme.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture 20e siècle États-Unis.
Architecture Modernism

Form/genre:

Derrida copy Annotations (Provenance) NjP
Derrida copy Insertions (Provenance) NjP

Added entries:

Sartarelli, Stephen, 1954- translator.
Lombardo, Patrizia, author of introduction, etc.
Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 84612
Call No.: ID:93-B1472
Status: Available