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Le Corbusier and the concept of self / Simon Richards

Author
Richards, Simon, 1973-
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003]
Copyright Date
©2003
Physical Description
viii, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Additional Creators
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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Contents
I. 'The Lawgiver' -- 1. 1914-1929: Technocracy -- 2. 1930-1940: Syndicalism -- 3. 1941-1942: Vichy -- II. The Science of Painting -- 4. Leger and the Purist Object -- 5. Conventionalism -- 6. Ozenfant's Impasse -- III. 'Pascal's Desideratum' -- 7. Pascal: Preparing the Machine -- 8. 'Wisdom Builds Its Own House' -- 9. Bataille and Camus: 'Vers la limite critique'.
Summary
"The book examines the position of Le Corbusier's ideas within the intellectual life of the twentieth century. Richards observes, for example, that the lack of social facilities in post-war modernist housing may have been intentional - a possibility that has not been raised before. Richards also identifies for the first time close alignments in the thinking of Le Corbusier and such other intellectuals as Albert Camus and Georges Bataille."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN
0300095651
9780300095654
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-289) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Laurent Lesage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature; 2013
Endowment Note
Gift of the Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature
Laurent LeSage Libraries Collection Endowment for French Continental Literature
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