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Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy (Paperback)
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Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy (Paperback)
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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.
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