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Tables of Contents for Architecture and Nihilism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
 
Introduction: The Philosophy of the City
ix
 
Patrizia Lombardo
Part I The Dialectics of the Negative and the Metropolis
Metropolis
3
20
On the German Sociology of the City at the Turn of the Century
23
19
Merchants and Heroes
42
14
Negative Thought and Artistic Representation
56
11
Essay and Tragedy
67
20
The City as Essay
87
14
Part II Loos and His Contemporaries
Loosian Dialectics
101
19
The Contemporaries
120
11
The Oikos of Wittgenstein
131
12
Part III Loos and His Angel
Loos and His Angel
143
7
Being Loyal
150
6
The Other
156
5
Tabula Rasa
161
5
The New Space
166
9
The House
175
4
Lou's Buttons
179
8
The Chain of Glass
187
4
Of Progress and Pioneers
191
4
On Loos's Tomb
195
4
Epilogue: On the Architecture of Nihilism
199
14
Notes
213