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| Article name | The Concept of Postmodernism in K. Kurokawa’s Philosophy of Metabolism |
| Authors | Khasieva M.A.Candidate of Philosophy HasievaMA@mgsu.ru |
| Bibliographic description | Khasieva M. A. The Concept of Postmodernism in K. Kurokawa’s Philosophy of Metabolism // Humanitarian Vector. 2018. Vol. 13, No. 3. PP. 75–83. |
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| UDK | 130.2 |
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| Annotation | The topicality of this theme is determined by the importance of the Metabolism concept for architecture and urban planning of the 20th century, as well as its influence on the modern philosophy of urbanism. The distinctive feature of The Metabolist movement is that it is based on the original philosophical concept, which is not just the opposite of the functionalism in architecture. The essential idea of the Metabolism movement is the contradistinction of the epochs of modernism and postmodernism in culture, and the metabolism architecture embodied the post-modernistic tendencies. The subject of consideration in this article is the essence of the postmodernism in the philosophy of metabolism. The methods of the research include a descriptive overview of Kurokawa’s works, the analysis of the texts in K. Kurokawa’s works, the review of the research literature devoted to this topic. The main conclusions of the article concern the correspondence between the traditional Japanese culture and the concept of metabolism, the reception and transformation of the basic notions of the postmodernistic European philosophy in the works of metabolists, the comparison of the European modernistic culture and the Japanese culture of the Edo period in K. Kurokawa’s works. |
| Key words | K. Kurokawa, philosophy of symbiosis, architecture of metabolism, postmodernism in architecture, the Edo epoch, the epoch of the Machine principle |
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