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Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy

Autor Nadir Lahiji
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 sep 2016
Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture.Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji constructs a concept of the baroque in contrast to the contemporary understanding in architecture discourse. Challenging the contemporary dominance of the Neo-Baroque as a phenomenon related to postmodernism and late capitalism, he establishes the Baroque as a name for the paradoxical unity of 'kitsch' and 'high' art and argues that the digital turn has enhanced the return of the Baroque in contemporary culture and architectural practice that he brands a pseudo-event in the term 'neobaroque'. Lahiji's original critique expands on the misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy and explains why the category of the Baroque, if it is still useful to keep in architecture criticism, must be tied to the notion of Post-Rationalism. Within this latter notion, he draws on the work of Alain Badiou to theorize a new concept of the Baroque as Event.Alongside close readings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault related to the criticism of the Baroque and Modernity and discussions of the work of Frank Gehry, in particular, this study draws on Jacque Lacan's concept of the baroque and presents the first comprehensive treatment of the psychoanalytical theory of the Baroque in the work of Lacan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474228541
ISBN-10: 1474228542
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 10 b/w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Covers a range of interpretations of Deleuze's philosophical notion of the Baroque in contemporary architectural theory

Notă biografică

Nadir Lahiji is an adjunct Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is the editor of Can Architecture Be An Emancipatory Project? Dialogues on Architecture and the Left (2016). He previously edited The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture (Bloomsbury 2014).

Cuprins

Table of ContentsList of FiguresForeword, David CunninghamPrefaceAcknowledgmentIntroduction: Philosophy, Architecture, and the Baroque Subject to Truth1. Excursus: Variations on the Theme of Baroque Theory and PhilosophyPart I: The Philosophical Theory of Baroque 2. The Baroque and Jouissance: Jacques Lacan 3. The Baroque and the Fold: Gilles Deleuze Interlude 1: Theorization of Baroque as 'Event'Part II: Modernity, Madness, and the Baroque Criticism 4. Cogito and the Baroque in the Age of Reason: Reading Foucault5. Baroque Reason and the Madness of Vision: Reading Buci-Glucksmann 6. Theology and the 'Baroque Room': Reading Benjamin7. Culture Industry and the (Neo-)Baroque: Reading AdornoPART III: Architecture and the Theory of the Baroque 8. The Misadventure of Architecture with French Philosophy 9. Digital Neobaroque and the Hyper-Deleuzeans of Architecture 10. Against the 'Architectural' Reading of The Fold11. The Draped Neobaroque: Is It Possible Not to Love Frank Gehry?Interlude: Post-Rationalism and Theorization of the Baroque as RealPart IV: Post-Rationalism and the Adventure with French Philosophy12. De-Suturing Architecture: Philosophy and Anti-Philosophy13. Capitalism, Idolatry, and Critique of Neobaroque IdeologyEpilogue: The Missed Encounter of Architecture with Post-RationalismWorks CitedIndex

Recenzii

Nadir Lahiji's Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy provides, as promised, a genuine intellectual adventure. Using an encyclopedic knowledge of recent French philosophy and his impressive background in architecture, Lahiji constructs a breathtakingly new theory of the baroque that completely alters previous understandings of the concept. This is required reading for anyone interested in the baroque or in contemporary French philosophy.
With Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy Nadir Lahiji has produced a first rate and thoroughgoing critical engagement with the enormous and challenging body of theoretical work on the baroque that has emerged primarily from late 20th-century French thought. Building on a careful reconstruction of the core philosophical issues at the heart of the Benjaminian, psychoanalytic, and Deleuzian permutations of the baroque question, Lahiji breaks new ground as he brings the theoretical edifice full circle to its very source in the contemplation of architecture.
Nadir Lahiji's engagement with the baroque is a most remarkable intellectual achievement. It scrutinizes the baroque in all its multifaceted and contradictory aspects, presenting not merely its historical context and value, but placing it at the heart of contemporary theoretical and political strives. Lahiji examines the very nature of modernity, confronting Lacan's and Deleuze's take on it, rereading Benjamin's classical account and proposing a devastating critique of the 'neobaroque' in modern architecture. Great joy to read and a great challenge for thought.