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

Main entry:

Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

xxi, 273 pages 25 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-261) and index.
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 (HB)
1474228542 (HB)
9781474228527 (ePDF)
9781474228534 (ePub)
9781350064010
1350064017

Subject:

Lacan, Jacques 1901-1981
Deleuze, Gilles 1925-1995
Badiou, Alain 1937-
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
Architecture Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Baroque.
Aesthetics, French.
Esthétique baroque.
Esthétique française.
AÌ#x88;sthetik.
Ästhetik
Philosophie
Barock
Architektur
Frankreich

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306920
Call No.: BIB 252462
Status: Available

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