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Kant for Architects (Paperback)
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Kant for Architects (Paperback)
Series: Thinkers for Architects
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This book introduces architects to a philosopher, Immanuel Kant,
whose work was constantly informed by a concern for the world as an
evolving whole. According to Kant, in this interconnected and
dynamic world, humans should act as mutually dependent and
responsible subjects. Given his future-oriented and
ethico-politically concerned thinking, Kant is a thinker who
clearly speaks to architects. This introduction demonstrates how
his ideas bear pertinently and creatively upon the world in which
we live now and for which we should care thoughtfully. Kant
grounded his enlightened vision of philosophy's mission using an
architectural metaphor: of the modest 'dwelling-house'. Far from
constructing speculative 'castles in the sky' or vertiginous
'towers which reach to the heavens', he tells us that his humble
aim is rather to build a 'secure home for ourselves', one which
appropriately corresponds at once to the limited material resources
available on our planet, and to our need for firm and solid
principles to live by. This book also explores Kant's notions of
cosmopolitics, which attempts to think politics from a global
perspective by taking into account the geographical fact that the
earth is a sphere with limited land mass and natural resources.
Given the urgent topicality of sustainable development, these
Kantian texts are of particular interest for architects of today.
Students of architecture, who are necessarily trained in
negotiating between theory and practice, gain much from considering
Kant, whose critical project also consisted of testing and
exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what
extent, and crucially, how ideas can have a constructive effect on
the whole world, and on us as active agents therein.
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