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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Baroque.

Aesthetics, French.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781474228534

1474228534

9781474228558

1474228550

9781474228527

1474228526

OCLC:

950203044