The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following the recent radical turn in contemporary philosophy, architecture's role in contemporary culture is rarely addressed. In turn, the architecture discourse in academia has remained ignorant of recent developments in radical philosophy. Providing the first platform for a debate between critics, architects and radical philosophers, this unique collection unties these two schools of thought. Contributors reason for or against the claim of the "missed encounter" between architecture and radical philosophy. They discuss why our prominent critical philosophers devote stimulating writings to the ideological impact of arts on the contemporary culture - music, literature, cinema, opera, theatre - without attempting a similar comprehensive analysis of architecture. By critically evaluating recent philosophy in relation to contemporary architecture, The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture presents a thorough understanding of the new relationship between architecture and radical philosophy.

Nadir Lahiji is an independent scholar and architect. He teaches the University of Pennsylvania, USA and is the editor of The Political Unconsciousof Architecture (2011).

Introduction, Nadir Lahiji1. Anti-Architecture Today, Rex Butler (Reader, Art History Department, University of Queensland, Australia) 2. Architecture and Aesthetics, David Cunningham (Deputy Director, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, UK3. Any-Space-Whatever and the Architectural Exhaustion of Gilles Deleuze, Hélène Frichot (Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, Stockholm)4. The Adventure and Misadventure of Architecture with Philosophy, Nadir Lahiji5. Hegel's Architectural Critique of Heidegger, Todd McGowan (Associate Professor, English Department, University of Vermont, USA) 6. A New Realism and Materialism in Philosophy and Architecture, Joel McKim (Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)7. Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic, Gabreil Rockhill (Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA)8. The Transcoding the Violence of Financial Capitalism, Douglas Spencer (Architectural Association's Graduate School, UK)9. Walter Benjamin and the Relation of Architecture to Film: Reconsiderations and Recuperations, Charlie Strong (Philosophy Department, Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA)Index

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