Postmodern Sophistications

Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition

By: David Kolb

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Paperback | 15 November 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Kolb discusses postmodern architectural styles and theories within the context of philosophical ideas about modernism and postmodernism. He focuses on what it means to dwell in a world and within a history and to act from or against a tradition.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction Modern and Postmodern
The Course of the Book
Socrates and the Story of Inquiry
The Last Word in Greek Philosophy Aristotle Plato The Sophists
The Power of the Sophist Plato's Sophists Knowledge, Opinion, and Metaphysics Reason and Persuasion Metaphysical Fear
Postmodern Sophistications Lyotard and Habermas A German Plato and a French Sophist? Modern and Postmodern
Self-Criticism in a Broken Mirror Prior Conditions Discipline and Appropriate Judgment
Form and Content in Utopia Modernity and Tradition The Three-World Story Form and Content
Life in Balloon Premodern Ancestors The Problem of Simple Inhabitation Spacious Systems Doubting Modern Distance
Modern Architecture from Pillar to Post Postmodern Architecture The Modern World: Weber The Modern World: Hegel The Modern World: Heidegger The Postmodern World Irony and the Suspended Architect
Where Do the Architects Live?
Does Architecture Speak a Language?
The Master Language Equal Access to History Vocabularies and Memories
Extending Architectural Vocabularies Limits Changes and Metaphors
Many Forms Many Intentions
Haughty and Humble Ironies Judgmental Irony Romantic Irony Deconstructive Irony Architectural Irony Parody, Irony, and Politics
Self-Identity and Place Differential Places Heidegger's Deep Places Empirical Places Deconstructed Places
Making Places for Ourselves Criticism and Possibilities Archetypal Guidance Regional Guidance Precedent and Rereading The Presence of the Past
Building Together / Buildings Together Is There a Postmodern World? The Problem of Jumble Regionalism and the Consumer Society Self-Criticism Together
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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