Kōjin Karatani's Philosophy of Architecture

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-64759-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 137 mm, Gewicht: 20 g

In this book, Nadir Lahiji introduces Kojin 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 Kojin 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 Kojin Karatani’s highly significant ideas on architecture for both philosophical and architectural audiences.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lahiji, Nadir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Nadir Lahiji is an architect. He is most recently the author of Architecture in the Age of Pornography (Routledge, 2021), Architecture, Philosophy and the Pedagogy of Cinema (Routledge, 2021), Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique after Marx (Routledge, 2020), and An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge, 2019). His previous publications include, among others, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy and the coauthored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City.