Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

characteristic for the locality is something else: namely, the aspect under which, viewed from here, the production process appe ...

genius of language; that it fulfils instructions that it has not been informed of, and erects bastions in the unconscious. In th ...

guidance. This is all very well and no one would retain a bitter after-taste on their tongue if this were not the case. In the e ...

transmitted diseases and regulation of births. The fact that the elementary events of life are resolutely seized upon is as it s ...

Georg Simmel Although marginalized for much of his academic career, the German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858–19 ...

relationship with everything else and make one cosmos out of all the individual elements. On the other hand, however, the object ...

and mental life process in which the reality of humankind takes place and gathers the emotion of that reality, flowing and ebbin ...

humankind, then in the case of the door, both are concentrated more uniformly in human achievement as human achievement. This is ...

functional. Even though one might also attribute the frequency with which painting employs both to the artistic value of their m ...

mind is stimulated by the difference between present impressions and those which have preceded. Lasting impressions, the slightn ...

inevitable knowledge of individual characteristics produces, with an equal inevitability, an emotional tone in conduct, a sphere ...

punctual way into a firmly fixed framework of time which transcends all subjective elements. But here too there emerge those con ...

values, it becomes the frightful leveller—it hollows out the core of things, their peculiarities, their specific values and thei ...

mixture, the rhythm of its emergence and disappearance, the forms in which it is adequate—these constitute, with the simplified ...

colourfulness of Athenian life is perhaps explained by the fact that a people of incomparably individualized personalities were ...

enjoys. The most significant aspect of the metropolis lies in this functional magnitude beyond its actual physical boundaries an ...

noticeable. For many types of persons these are still the only means of saving for oneself, through the attention gained from ot ...

which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, in the footsteps of Nietzsche, directed against the metropolis. But it is ...

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PART II PHENOMENOLOGY ...