Architecture as Metaphor
Language, Number, Money
$70.86
- Paperback
246 pages
- Release Date
5 October 1995
Summary
In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin Karatani detects a recurrent “will to architecture” that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics.Kojin Karatani, Japan’s leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most recently Kant. His works, of which Origins of Modern Ja…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262611138 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262611139 |
| Author: | Kojin Karatani, Sabu Kohso, Michael Speaks |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 246 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 1995 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Writing Architecture |
About The Author
Kojin Karatani
Kojin Karatani is a Japanese philosopher who teaches at Kinki University, Osaka, and Columbia University. He is the author of Architecture as Metaphor (MIT Press, 1995) and Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. He founded the New Associationist Movement (NAM) in Japan in 2000.
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