The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture [Hardcover]

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecturebrings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following the recent radical turn in contemporary philosophy, architecture's role in contemporary culture is rarely addressed. In turn, the architecture discourse in academia has remained ignorant of recent developments in radical philosophy. Providing the first platform for a debate between critics, architects and radical philosophers, this unique collection unties these two schools of thought. Contributors reason for or against the claim of the missed encounter between architecture and radical philosophy. They discuss why our prominent critical philosophers devote stimulating writings to the ideological impact of arts on the contemporary culture - music, literature, cinema, opera, theatre - without attempting a similar comprehensive analysis of architecture. By critically evaluating recent philosophy in relation to contemporary architecture,The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecturepresents a thorough understanding of the new relationship between architecture and radical philosophy.

Nadir Lahijiis Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is the editor ofArchitecture Against the Post-Political: Re-claiming the Critical Project(Routledge, 2014). He previously editedThe Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson's Narrative(Ashgate, 2011).

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Philosophy and Architecture: Encounters and Missed Encounters, Idols and Idolatries
1. The Forgotten Political Art par excellence?: Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic,Gabriel Rockhill
2. Architecture and the Politics of AestlÓõ