Architecture and nihilism : on the philosophy of modern architecture / Massimo Cacciari ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli ; introduction by Patrizia Lombardo.

Architecture and nihilism : on the philosophy of modern architecture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cacciari, Massimo
Format:	Book
Language:	English Italian
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]
Series:	Theoretical perspectives in architectural history and criticism.
Subjects:	Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Philosophy. Negativity (Philosophy)

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Philosophy of the City / Patrizia Lombardo
Pt. I. The Dialectics of the Negative and the Metropolis
1. Metropolis
2. On the German Sociology of the City at the Turn of the Century
3. Merchants and Heroes
4. Negative Thought and Artistic Representation
5. Essay and Tragedy
6. The City as Essay
Pt. II. Loos and His Contemporaries
7. Loosian Dialectics
8. The Contemporaries
9. The Oikos of Wittgenstein
Pt. III. Loos and His Angel
10. Loos and His Angel
11. Being Loyal
12. The Other
13. Tabula Rasa
14. The New Space
15. The House
16. Lou's Buttons
17. The Chain of Glass
18. Of Progress and Pioneers
19. On Loos's Tomb. Epilogue: On the Architecture of Nihilism.