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In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. Kojin Karatani, Japan's leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most recently Kant. His works, of which Origins of Modern Japanese Literature is the only one previously translated into English, are the generic equivalent to what in America is called "theory." Karatani's writings are important not only for the insights they offer on the various topics under discussion, but also as an example of a distinctly non-Western critical intervention. In Architecture as Metaphor, Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruc

Who reads Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money (Writing Architecture)?

Author

Kōjin Karatani; Sabu Kohso (translator); Michael Speaks (editor)

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262611138

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Reference, Art

Rating

4.9 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14