Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Urban Arabesques

Philosophy, Hong Kong, Transversality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines philosophy as an event of the city and the city as an event of philosophy and how the intertwining of the two generates an urban imaginary.

Produktdetails

• New Critical Humanities
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781786614117
• ISBN-10: 1786614111
• Artikelnr.: 58035786

Autorenporträt

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren is the Director of Wild Studios Consulting and Creative Productions LLC. Recently retired as Professor and Director of the University of Hong Kong's Common Core, Gray continues to serve as an Honorary Professor of the Humanities, Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature, and as Senior Advisor for the Common Core. Prior to HKU, he was the inaugural Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington-Bothell. A Fulbright Scholar and the recipient of four teaching awards, Gray is the author of Starting Time; Narcissus Transformed; Night Café; TechnoLogics; Kant in Hong Kong; Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida; and Urban Arabesques. He lives with Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren on a dirt road just up the hill from Useless Bay.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Threshold: Arabesques, Hong Kong, and the Material Poetics of
Philosophy 1. Cities Within the City: Traversing the Streets 2. The
Arabesques of the Urban: Foliage, Frames, and Twists 3. Thinking Streets:
Transversal Empiricism 4. The Lobster, Unleashed: The Peculiarity of
Philosophy 5. Ghost Money: TransRational Cash and the Non-Modern 6.
Kino-Surfaces: Cinematic Streets 7. Politics on the Streets: The Pink
Panther, Yellow Umbrellas, and a Prolepsis 8. Street Walking: The
Peripatetics of Thinking 9. Stepping Outside: Rhythms of the Streets 10.
Everyday Life and the Urban Arabesque Conclusion: Immensity Notes
References Index