Archeticture by David Farrell Krell
The opening chapter of Archeticture proposes a new reading of Plato's Timaeus, the seminal work in Western philosophy on the architecture of the universe and the human body. It pays close attention to the figures of Chaos, Necessity, and khora in Timaeus, arguing that the Demiurge is less a divine craftsman or technician than a lover and a father--admittedly, a father of an awkward and forgetful sort. Among the things the Demiurge forgets to acknowledge are the elements, spaces, and places, the materiality and the spatiality, in which he finds himself--but which he does not master. Chapter 2 moves from Plato to the modern and contemporary philosophers Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. It sees in the projects of these thinkers a growing liberation of choric space from time, culminating in an ecstatic interpretation of human spatiality. Yet ecstatic spatiality is anything but familiar; it is essentially unhomelike and uncanny. Chapter 3 offers a series of archetictural sections--as opposed to architectural plans or elevations--of Freud and Heidegger on the theme of the uncanny and unhomelike, das Unheimliche. The fourth and final chapter turns to three recent thinkers who, in very different ways, introduce uncanny human bodies into unhomelike spaces: Merleau-Ponty, Bataille, and Irigaray.
"Archeticture is the work of a prodigious thinker, beautifully written, freighted with startling interpretations and incomparable scholarshipAs always David Farrell Krell's insights disturb and convince. The appearance of this book is significant for several fields of study—philosophy; art; architectural theory, history, and criticism." — D. S. Friedman, University of Cincinnati
David Farrell Krell has published eight scholarly books; SUNY Press has published his two works of fiction, Nietzsche: A Novel and Son of Spirit: A Novel. He is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791434093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791434095 |
| Title | Archeticture |
| Author | David Farrell Krell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1997-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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