Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction: Philosophy, Architecture, and the Baroque Subject to Truth -- 1. Excursus: Variations on the Theme of Baroque Theory and Philosophy -- Part 1: The Philosophical Theory of Baroque -- 2. The Baroque and Jouissance: Jacques Lacan -- 3. The Baroque and the Fold: Gilles Deleuze -- Interlude I: Theorization of Baroque as "Event" -- Part 2: Modernity, Madness, and the Baroque Criticism -- 4. Cogito and the Baroque in the Age of Reason: Reading Foucault -- 5. Baroque Reason and the Madness of Vision: Reading Buci-Glucksmann -- 6. Theology and the "Baroque Room": Reading Benjamin -- 7. Culture Industry and the (Neo)Baroque: Reading Adorno -- Part 3: Architecture and the Theory of the Baroque -- 8. The Misadventure of Architecture with French Philosophy -- 9. Digital Neobaroque and the Hyper-Deleuzeans of Architecture -- 10. Against the "Architectural" Reading of The Fold -- 11. The Draped Neobaroque: Is it Possible Not to Love Frank Gehry? -- Interlude II: Postrationalism and the Theorization of the Baroque as Real -- Part 4: Postrationalism and the Adventure with French Philosophy -- 12. Desuturing Architecture: Philosophy and Antiphilosophy -- 13. Capitalism, Idolatry, and Critique of Neobaroque Ideology -- Epilogue: The Missed Encounter of Architecture with Postrationalism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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