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Architecture as Metaphor – Language, Number & Money
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Architecture as Metaphor – Language, Number & Money Paperback - 1995

by Karatani, Kojin/ Kohso, Sabu (Translator)/ Speaks, Michael (Editor)/ Speaks, Michael

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Mit Pr, 1995. Paperback. New. 2nd paperback edition. 246 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches.
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  • Title Architecture as Metaphor – Language, Number & Money
  • Author Karatani, Kojin/ Kohso, Sabu (Translator)/ Speaks, Michael (Editor)/ Speaks, Michael
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mit Pr, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0262611139
  • ISBN 9780262611138 / 0262611139
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.05 x 5.41 x 0.64 in (20.45 x 13.74 x 1.63 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-18602
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.645

From the rear cover

In Architecture as Metaphor, 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. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of "secular criticism", but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism. As Karatani claims in his introduction, because the will to architecture is practically nonexistent in Japan, he must first assume a dual role: one that affirms the architectonic (by scrutinizing the suppressed function of form) and one that pushes formalism to its collapse (by invoking Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorem). His subsequent discussions trace a path through the work of Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, Gilles Deleuze, and others. Finally, amidst the drive that motivates all formalization, he confronts an unbridgeable gap, an uncontrollable event encountered in the exchange with the other; thus his speculation turns toward global capital movement. While in the present volume he mainly analyzes familiar Western texts, it is precisely for this reason that his voice discloses a distance that will add a new dimension to our English-language discourse.

About the author

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.