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Author:   Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.636kg
ISBN:  

9781472463418

ISBN 10:   1472463412
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Reima Pietilä’s Kuwait Buildings Revisited; Chapter 2 Empathy, Abstraction, Style, Non-Style; Chapter 3 “Magic Internationalism” or the Paradox of Globalization; Chapter 4 Wang Shu and the Possibilities of Critical Regionalism in China; Chapter 5 When the Monumental Becomes Decorative; Chapter 6 Play, Dream, and the Search for the “Real” Form of Dwelling; Chapter 7 Wittgenstein’s Stonborough House and the Architecture of Tadao Ando; Chapter 8 Cardboard Houses with Wings; Chapter 9 H-Sang Seung; Chapter 10 The Secularization of the Architectural Heritage through Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

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Thorsten Botz-Bornstein was born in Germany and studied philosophy in Paris and Oxford. As a postdoctoral researcher based in Finland he undertook exten-sive research on Russian formalism and semiotics in Russia and the Baltic countries. He has also been researching in Japan, in particular on the Kyoto School and on the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro. At present he is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. His publications are: Place and Dream: Japan and the Virtual (Rodopi, 2004); Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Bergman, Kubrik, Wong Kar-wai (Lexington Books 2007); La Chine contre l'Amerique. Culture sans civilisation contre civilisation sans culture? (Paris: L'Harmattan 2012); Vasily Sesemann: Experience, Formalism and the Question of Being (Rodopi 2006); Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan (Lexington Books 2009); The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity (Lexington 2010); The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity (with Noreen Abdullah-Khan, Palgrave 2014); Editor of: The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World (Rodopi, 2011); Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For (Chicago: Open Court, 2011). Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Tendencies of Cultural Revival in Contemporary Philosophy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006). The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (2010) Nature Culture, Memes (2008).

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