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Late Modernity and La Villette: “Unsettling” the Object/Event Dialectic

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Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

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Johan Fornas, in Cultural Theory of Late Modernity, places symbolic communication at the heart of cultural production.1 He presents the inherited dialectical understanding of communicative structures and uses the limitations of this construct to investigate potential communicative processes that operate closer to the intersubjective and polyphonic nature of late modern culture.

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  1. Johan Fornas, Cultural Theory and Late Modernity (London; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995 ), pp. 1–2.

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  2. Ibid., p. 1.

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  3. Ibid., p. 49.

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  5. Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985 ), p. 206.

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  6. Fornas, op. cit., p. 180.

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  8. Fornas, op. cit., pp. 258–278.

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  9. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1979 ), pp. 241, 688.

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  11. Ibid., pp. 20–31.

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  12. Bernard Tschumi, Cinégramme Folie: Le Parc de la Villette ( Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987 ), p. 27.

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  13. Ibid., p. ii.

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  14. Ibid., p. VIII.

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  15. Ibid., p. 27.

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  19. Ibid., p. VII.

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  23. Ibid., p. 21.

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  24. Ibid., p. 22.

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  26. Tschumi, op. cit., p. 12. He quotes here a passage from his unpublished text, “Etude de Définition.”

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  32. Ibid., p. 28. He states: “The goal of this reformulation of modern rationality is to let the critique of reason… radicalize the modern project of enlightenment, rather than liquidate it.”

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    Tricia Meehan

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    Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

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Meehan, T. (2003). Late Modernity and La Villette: “Unsettling” the Object/Event Dialectic. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite. Analecta Husserliana, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1658-1_12

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