Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1990)
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Kolb discusses postmodern architectural styles and theories within the context of philosophical ideas about modernism and postmodernism. He focuses on what it means to dwell in a world and within a history and to act from or against a tradition

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BH301.P69.K64 1990

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9780226450285   0226450287   0226450279

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Chapters

Socrates and the Story of Inquiry.  (pages 11-17)David Kolb
The Last Word in Greek Philosophy.  (pages 17-25)David Kolb
The power of the Sophist.  (pages 25 – 36)David Kolb
Postmodern sophistication: Habermas versus Lyotard.  (pages 36 – 50)David Kolb
Self-criticism in a broken mirror.  (pages 51 - 60)David Kolb
Form and content in utopia.  (pages 61 – 74)David Kolb
Life in a balloon.  (pages 75 – 86)David Kolb
Modern versus postmodern architecture.  (pages 87 – 105)David Kolb
Where do the architects live?  (pages 106 – 115)David Kolb
Extending architectural vocabulary.  (pages 116-129)David Kolb
Haughty and humble ironies.  (pages 130 - 145)David Kolb
Self-identity and place.  (pages 146 – 158)David Kolb
Making places for ourselves.  (pages 159 – 170)David Kolb
Building together / buildings together.  (pages 171 – 184)David Kolb

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Self-identity and place.David Kolb - 1990 - In Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 146 – 158.
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Philosophical Investigations.Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1953 - New York, NY, USA: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe.
After virtue: a study in moral theory.Alasdair C. MacIntyre - 2007 - Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity.Richard Rorty - 1989 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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