| Foreword. Monumental Works and Eventful Occasions |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction. The Foundations and Architecture of the Work |
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| Part I The Experience of Architecture |
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Lineages and Legacies: The Universality of Hermeneutical Reflection |
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4 | (17) |
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From Texts to Life: The Widening Scope of Hermeneutics |
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5 | (2) |
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Heidegger's Postmodernity: Beyond Objectivity and Methodology |
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7 | (2) |
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Gadamer's Contribution: Hermeneutics as Ontological and Universal |
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9 | (2) |
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Gadamer's Reception: Indifference, Enthusiasm, and Antagonism |
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11 | (5) |
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Gadamerian Hermeneutics and the Politics of Difference |
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16 | (5) |
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Dancing Menhirs: The Superabundance and Autonomy of Architecture |
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21 | (17) |
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Revealment and Concealment: The Otherness and Autonomy of Architecture |
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22 | (4) |
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Problematizing Architecture: The Transcendence of Design |
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26 | (3) |
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Superabundance and the Indigenous Experience of Architecture |
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29 | (5) |
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Superabundance and the Academic Interpretation of Architecture |
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34 | (4) |
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Conversation and Play: The Eventfulness of Architecture |
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38 | (21) |
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Events Not Buildings: The Occasionality of Architecture |
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39 | (2) |
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Unaccepted Challenges: Buildings and Beholders Redefined |
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41 | (3) |
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Seeing versus Playing: Alternative Metaphors for Understanding |
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44 | (4) |
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The Architectural Situation: Buildings, People, and Ritual Occasions |
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48 | (2) |
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The Play of Architecture: Interactivity, Seriousness, and Transformation |
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50 | (6) |
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The Layering of Hermeneutical Situations: Architectural Experience and Interpretation |
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56 | (3) |
| Part II The Mechanism of Architecture |
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59 | (46) |
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Order and Variation: The Twofold Pattern of Ritual-Architectural Events |
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62 | (12) |
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The Concept of Decoration: Architecture's ``Double Mediation'' |
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62 | (3) |
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A Twofold Pattern: Reassurance and Disruption |
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65 | (4) |
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Conventionality and Innovation: The Front and Back Halves of the Architectural Situation |
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69 | (5) |
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Allurement and Coercion: The Front Half of the Ritual-Architectural Situation |
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74 | (12) |
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Identificatory Allurement: Leaving and Coming Home |
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75 | (2) |
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Invitations to Participate: The Instigation of Architectural Events |
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77 | (1) |
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The Continuity of Tradition and the Indispensability of Allurement |
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78 | (3) |
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The Specificity of Allurement and Its Coercive Potential |
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81 | (5) |
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Transformation and Productivity: The Back Half of the Ritual-Architectural Situation |
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86 | (19) |
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Stifled Expectations, Planned Uncertainty, and Intended Irregularity |
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87 | (2) |
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Hermeneutical Productivity: The Information and Content of Architecture |
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89 | (2) |
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Perilous Productivity: The Boundaries of Architectural Innovation |
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91 | (2) |
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The Architectural Mechanism: Clarifications and Recommendations |
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93 | (12) |
| Part III The Interpretation of Architecture |
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105 | (44) |
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Use and Uselessness: The Special Case of Architecture |
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108 | (13) |
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Architecture's Dual Fraternity: Tools and Art |
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110 | (3) |
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Architectural Allusions: Thinking with, about, and as Building |
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113 | (2) |
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The Two Faces of Architecture: Intimacy and Transcendence |
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115 | (2) |
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Architecture as Utilitarian and Transutilitarian |
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117 | (1) |
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A Fourth Dimension: Looking at, Being in, and Moving around Architecture |
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118 | (3) |
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Architecture as ``Mute Text''? Literary and Nonliterary Vehicles of Intelligibility |
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121 | (13) |
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The Privilege of Texts: Reading Architecture and Everything |
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122 | (2) |
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Reading Ritual: Meaningful Action Considered as Text |
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124 | (3) |
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Textual Tyranny and Alternative Vehicles of Intelligibility |
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127 | (4) |
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Books and Meanings: Will Any Hermeneutics Do? |
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131 | (3) |
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Studying Buildings by Decision or Default: Architecture's Evidential Promise |
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134 | (15) |
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Architecture's (Supposed) Virtues as Religiohistorical Data |
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135 | (4) |
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Architecture's (Supposed) Limitations as Religiohistorical Data |
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139 | (4) |
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More Serious Interpretive Challenges: Worse and Better Prospects for Understanding |
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143 | (1) |
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Losing and Reclaiming the Past: The Newness of Old Architecture |
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143 | (3) |
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The Greatest Obstacle: Impoverished Understandings of Architecture |
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146 | (3) |
| Part IV The Comparison of Architecture |
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149 | (60) |
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Insignificant Organization: Comparative Orderings of Architecture |
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153 | (17) |
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Cross-Cultural Classifications: Illusions of Neutrality and Comprehensiveness |
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154 | (2) |
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The Unnaturalness of Organization: Discovering or Imposing Order? |
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156 | (1) |
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The Feel of Classificatory Significance and Legitimacy |
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157 | (2) |
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Hermeneutics and Classification: The Relativity of Significance |
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159 | (1) |
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Competing Organizations: Relatively Insignificant Options |
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160 | (7) |
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Comparative Distortions: Classificatory Complaints and Prospects |
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167 | (3) |
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Significant Alternatives: Modes, Contexts, and Sequences of Architectural Comparison |
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170 | (17) |
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The Indigenous Experience of Architecture as a Comparative Act |
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171 | (4) |
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The Interpretation of Individual Architectures as a Comparative Act |
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175 | (3) |
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Synchronic Comparisons of Architecture: Similarity, Preparation, and Morphology |
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178 | (3) |
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Diachronic Comparisons of Architecture: Difference, Specificity, and Reception History |
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181 | (2) |
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Comparing Comparisons: Sequential Negotiations of Similarity and Difference |
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183 | (4) |
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Multifarious Revalorization: The Composition of Ritual-Architectural Reception Histories |
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187 | (22) |
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Why and How Reception Theory: Meanings, Contexts, and Historiography |
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188 | (2) |
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Architectural Reception Histories: Contextualization, Specificity, and Description |
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190 | (2) |
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Revalorization and Empirical Veracity: Respecting the Particular, Irregular, and Unforeseen |
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192 | (3) |
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Aspirations to Inclusiveness: Fully Democratic, Wildly Heterogeneous Reception Histories |
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195 | (3) |
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The Selectivity of Reception Histories: Protocols of Architectural Apprehension |
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198 | (11) |
| Notes |
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209 | (82) |
| Select Bibliography |
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291 | (18) |
| Index to Volume One |
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