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Architecture or revolution : emancipatory critique after Marx / Nadir Lahiji.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
- Marx, Karl.
- Architecture--Philosophy.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Nadir Lahiji is an architect. He is most recently the author of 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 co-authored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City.
- Contents:
- Part I p. 45
- 1 The Blank Wall: Architecture and the French Revolution p. 47
- Architecture and bourgeoisie p. 48
- Invention of the Blank Wall p. 53
- Theses on the Blank Wall p. 61
- Virtue and Terror p. 67
- The Blank Wall and the philosophy of revolution p. 76
- 2 The architecture of (Neo)Bonapartism p. 102
- Corbusianism and Bonapartism p. 102
- Keynesianism and Corbusianism p. 118
- Neo-Bonapartism and specters of Le Corbusier p. 126
- Part II p. 135
- 3 Marx and Critique p. 137
- Critique and Enlightenment p. 137
- Transcritique p. 144
- Critique and the Unconscious p. 169
- 4 Transcritique of architecture p. 200
- The sublime object of critique p. 200
- Phantasmagoria of architecture p. 216
- Architecture and the capitalist Unconscious p. 227
- Part III p. 251
- 5 Toward a philosophy of shelter p. 253
- Shelter, not a lofty tower p. 254
- Universality of shelter and the philosophy of right p. 264.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2020).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- Architecture or revolution
- ISBN:
- 9780367853372
- 036785337X
- 9781000196160
- 100019616X
- 9781000033052
- 1000033058
- 9781000045048
- 1000045048
- Publisher Number:
- 99986137513
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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