Phenomenology, architecture, and the built world : : exercises in philosophical anthropology / / by James Dodd.

• Superior document: Studies in contemporary phenomenology, volume 15
• VerfasserIn: Dodd, James, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in contemporary phenomenology ; v. 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 pages) :; color illustrations.

Phenomenology, Architecture and the Built World is an introduction to the methods and basic concepts of phenomenological philosophy through an analysis of the phenomenon of the built world. The conception of the built world that emerges is of space and time fashioned in accordance with a living understanding of what it is for human beings to exist in the world. Human building and making is thus no mere supplementary instrument in the pursuit of the ends of life, but a fundamental embodiment of the self-understanding of human beings. Phenomenological description is uniquely capable of bringing into view the physiognomy of this understanding, its texture and complexity, thereby providing an important basis for a critique of what constitutes its essence and its conditions of possibility.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Knowledge and Building -- Building and Phenomenon -- Phenomenon and World -- At the Edge of the World -- World and Thing -- Thing and Built Space -- Built Space and Expression -- Expression and Presence -- Conclusion: Towards a Phenomenological-Anthropological Vocabulary of the Built World -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Name Index -- Subject Index.