Phenomenology, architecture, and the built world : exercises in philosophical anthropology / by James Dodd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodd, James, 1968- author.

Series:

Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 15.

Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; VOLUME 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

vii, 298 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

This is an introduction to the methods and basic concepts of phenomenological philosophy through an analysis of the phenomenon of the built world. The conception of the built world that emerges is of space and time fashioned in accordance with a living understanding of what it is for human beings to exist in the world. Human building and making is thus no mere supplementary instrument in the pursuit of the ends of life, but a fundamental embodiment of the self-understanding of human beings. Phenomenological description is uniquely capable of bringing into view the physiognomy of this understanding, its texture and complexity, thereby providing an important basis for a critique of what constitutes its essence and its conditions of possibility.

Contents:

1 Knowledge and Building 12

Architect and Engineer 12

Works and Meanings 23

The Space of Appearance 29

Rhetoric and the Engineering Ideal 33

2 Building and Phenomenon 39

Three Problems: Bearing Reference, Time and Encounter 39

Five Gestures of Phenomenological Philosophy 50

The Problem of the World 68

3 Phenomenon and World 71

The Pyramid and the Labyrinth 71

The Labyrinth of the Natural Attitude 74

Obscurity, Transcendent and Immanent 82

4 At the Edge of the World 96

The Art of Suspension 96

The Suspended Labyrinth 103

The Edge of the World 116

5 World and Thing 122

Questioning Thingness 122

Adumbration, Sensation and Movement 130

Orientation, World and Spatiality 142

The Dimensions of Orientation 149

6 Thing and Built Space 159

The Idea of an Exemplary Phenomenon 159

The Concept of Built Space and a Skeptical Objection 164

The Phenomentality of Built Space 168

Access and the Space of Encounter 176

Appearance and Making 184

The Problem of Built Space 192

7 Built Space and Expression 194

Towards the Problem of Expression 194

From Textual to Hodological Expression 207

Expressivity, Event and Presence 216

8 Expression and Presence 219

Spent Light 219

Image-Consciousness (Bildbewusstsein) 222

Presence and Complexity 230

The Presence of Built Space as Being-Rendered 239

The Spent Light of the Built 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dodd, James, 1968- author. Phenomenology, architecture, and the built world

ISBN:

9789004340008

9004340009

OCLC:

962553170