Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-262-58141-7
Verlag: MIT University Press Group Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Drawing on both the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer, and more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, K. Michael Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated "posthumanist" position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hays, K. Michael (Harvard University)

Hays, K. Michael

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie

Über Autor(innen)

Hays, K. Michael
K. Michael Hays is Eliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Theory at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he was appointed the first Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art. He is the author, among other books, of Modern Architecture and the Posthumanist Subject (1995) and the editor of Architecture Theory since 1968 (2000), both published by the MIT Press.

W. Kip Viscusi is the University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management at Vanderbilt University.