Another Modernity: A Different Rationality

1. Introduction.

Part I: Space:.

2. The First Modernity: Humans and Machines.

Garden City and Functionalism.

Structuralism.

Formalism.

Modernist Humanism?.

Conclusions.

3. Simulated Humanism: Postmodern Architecture.

Avant-gardes.

History.

Humanism.

Complexity.

Vernacular.

Conclujsions.

4. Ground the City.

Fields of Mapping: Grids and Labyrinths.

Productions of Space: Classical and Gothic.

The Other Modernity: Lived Space in Japan.

Urban Space and Allegory.

Part II: Society.

5. From System to Symbol: Durkheim and French Sociology.

Space and Society.

System.

Symbol: Durkheim and Mauss.

6. Symbol and Allegory: Simmel and German Sociology.

Values and Facts.

From Symbol to Allegory.

Conclusion.

Part III: Experience.

7. The Natural Attitude and the Reflexive Attitude.

Alfred Schutz: from Meaning to Understanding Signification and Existence.

8. Difference and Infinity: Derrida.

Kant, Husserl, Derrida.

Escape from Totality.

Time and Self-presence.

Three Modes of Signification.

Part IV: Judgement.

9. Reflexive Judgement and Aesthetic Subjectivity.

Finality of the Object, Singularity of the Subject.

Permanence and Finitude: Gadamer.

10. Discourse, Figure....Sensation.

The Body With Organs.

Greeks, Jews, Pagans.

Conclusions.

Part V: Objects.

11. Objects that Judge: Latour's Parliament of Things.

Towards a Non-Modern Constitution.

Morphisms Weavers and Object Trackers.

Ç'accuse.

Networks: Spiralling Time and Space.

12. Bad Objects: Virilio.

From Cité to War Machine.

Death: Bads, Contingency, Theodicy.

From War to Cinema.

From the Mental and the Instrumental: The End of the Gaze.

Polar Inertia: The Last Vehicle.

Time of Exposure.

13. The Symbolic in Fragments: Walter Benjamin's Talking Things.

Allegory: The Aesthetics of Destruction.

Protestant Ethic, Baroque Melancholy.

14. Conclusion.

Notes.

Index.