The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2018
166 pages
978-1-4384-6937-9 (ISBN)
Description
Examines the relationship of Derrida's writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 5
Total Illustrations: 5
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-6937-9 (9781438469379)
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Francesco Vitale
The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture
Book
01/2019
State University of New York Press
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Francesco Vitale
The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture
Book
02/2018
State University of New York Press
€96.00
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Persons
Francesco Vitale is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences, also published by SUNY Press, and the author and editor of several books in Italian on Derrida and contemporary French philosophy. Mauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham University in the United Kingdom and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. He is the author of Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Law of the Oikos: Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of the Dwelling
2. The House in Deconstruction: Notes on Derrida and the Law of the Oikos
3. Jacques Derrida and the Politics of Architecture
4. Mythographies: Toward an Architectural Writing
5. Writing Space: Between Tschumi and Derrida
6. Divergent Traces: Peter Eisenman as an Interpreter of Deconstruction
7. Spacing: The Architecture of Deconstruction
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Introduction
1. The Law of the Oikos: Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of the Dwelling
2. The House in Deconstruction: Notes on Derrida and the Law of the Oikos
3. Jacques Derrida and the Politics of Architecture
4. Mythographies: Toward an Architectural Writing
5. Writing Space: Between Tschumi and Derrida
6. Divergent Traces: Peter Eisenman as an Interpreter of Deconstruction
7. Spacing: The Architecture of Deconstruction
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
