An introduction to the writings of social philosopher Massimo Cacciari. He studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.

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Massimo Cacciari; translated by Stephen; introduction by Patricia Lombardo

Massimo Cacciari, Architekt

Cacciari, Mr. Massimo

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Brandywine River Museum

Mariners' Museum, The

Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism, New Haven, cop. 1993

Theoretical Perspectives in Architecture, 1995

New Haven, Conn, London, United Kingdom, 1993

United States, United States of America

New Ed edition, February 22, 1995

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Translated from the Italian.

Contents 5
Preface 7
Introduction: The Philosophy of the City 9
Venice's Spleen 13
Real Allegory 20
Conversations 24
Architectural Theory Against Italian Cultural Tradition 31
The Shock of History 39
The City of Scrambled Alphabets 44
The Fleeting Gaze of the Angel 49
Not a Home But an Adventure 54
PART 1: The Dialectics of the Negative and the Metropolis 61
1. Metropolis 63
2. On the German Sociology of the City at the Turn of the Century 83
3. Merchants and Heroes 102
4. Negative Thought and Artistic Representation 116
5. Essay and Tragedy 127
6. The City as Essay 147
PART 2: Loos and His Contemporaries 159
7. Loosian Dialectics 161
8. The Contemporaries 180
9. The Oikos of Wittgenstein 191
PART 3: Loos and His Angel 201
10. Loos and His Angel 203
11. Being Loyal 210
12. The Other 216
13. Tabula Rasa 221
14. The New Space 226
15. The House 235
16. Lou's Buttons 239
17. The Chain of Glass 247
18. Of Progress and Pioneers 251
19. On Loos's Tomb 255
Epilogue: On the Architecture of Nihilism 259
Notes 273
Introduction 273
Chapter 1. Metropolis 284
Chapter 2. On the German Sociology of the City at the Turn of the Century 285
Chapter 3. Merchants and Heroes 286
Chapter 4. Negative Thought and Artistic Representation 289
Chapter 5. Essay and Tragedy 290
Chapter 6. The City as Essay 291
Chapter 7. Loosian Dialectics 292
Chapter 8. The Contemporaries 297
Chapter 9. The oikos of Wittgenstein 300
Chapter 10. Loos and His Angel 301
Chapter 11. Being Loyal 302
Chapter 12. The Other 302
Chapter 13. Tabula Rasa 303
Chapter 14. The New Space 303
Chapter 15. The House 303
Chapter 16. Lou's Buttons 304
Chapter 17. The Chain of Glass 304
Chapter 18. Of Progress and Pioneers 304
Chapter 19. On Loos's Tomb 304
Epilogue 305
Credits for Illustrations 307

"Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society. He begins by defining the modern metropolis, using the terms and ideas of Georg Simmel and Max Weber, but revealing where their frameworks are limited. He then examines the work of Adolf Loos and other architects and designers in early twentieth-century Vienna, showing how their architecture and criticism expose the alienation and utopianism in notions of the organic city. Cacciari demonstrates how architecture intersects with the city and the state but also with the interior of the private dwelling and with its resistance to the external world. Bringing together philosophy, sociology, urbanism, labor history, economics, and aesthetics, he helps us comprehend via these disciplines a crucial period in the history of modernity."--Jacket

"Massimo Cacciari, one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today, is the founder of the trend of criticism known as "negative thought" that focuses on the failure of traditional logic to explicate the problems of modernity. This book, which introduces his writings to an English-speaking audience, provides a striking social and philosophical account of the twentieth-century metropolis. Patrizia Lombardo's extensive introduction situates Cacciari's thought within the milieu of Italian political activism and philosophy between the 1960s and the 1980s, from his collaboration on the leftist journal Contropiano to his long association with Manfredo Tafuri."

This book introduces the writings of one of the most influential social philosophers in Italy today to an English-speaking audience. Massimo Cacciari studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists, and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.

A social and philosophical account of the 20th century metropolis. This text studies the relation between philosophy and modern architecture and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists and writers to the social and political problems raised by technological society.

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