Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique After Marx

ISBN-13: 9780367425470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 306 str.

Nadir Lahiji

Opis

All those concerned with the predicament in our current condition in which architecture must play a major social role in upholding the universal value of what Alain Badiou calls 'generic humanity' will take an interest in this work. In particular, architects, critics, scholars and students inside the field of architecture.　　

Spis treści

Apologue: Revolution, Critique, and Return to Philosophy  Exordium: Learning from Valéry Reading Marx  Critical Pedagogy: Architecture or Revolution  PART 1  1. The Blank Wall: Architecture and the French Revolution  Architecture and Bourgeoisie  Invention of the Blank Wall  Theses on the Blank Wall  Virtue and Terror  The Blank Wall and Philosophy of Revolution  2. The Architecture of Bonapartism  Corbusianism and Bonapartism  Keynesianism and Corbusianism  Neo-Bonapartism and Specters of Le Corbusier  PART 2  3. Marx and Critique  Critique and Enlightenment  Transcritique  Critique and the Unconscious  4. Transcritique of Architecture  The Sublime Object of Critique  Phantasmagoria of Architecture  Architecture and the Capitalist Unconscious  PART 3  5. Toward A Philosophy of Shelter  Shelter, Not A Lofty Tower  Universality of Shelter and the Philosophy of Right  Coda: In Defence of Marx  Index