Adventures with the theory of the baroque and French philosophy /
Lahiji, Nadir,1948-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Architecture
Aesthetics, Baroque.
Aesthetics, French.