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The Will To Architecture: Kojin Karatani and Critics of the Traditional Metaphor of Architecture in Western Philosophy. Review of: Nadir Lahiji (2024). Kōjin Karatani’s Philosophy of Architecture. London and New York: Routledge. 180p.

The monograph of Nadir Lahiji, which is devoted to the philosophy of architecture of the outstanding Japanese thinker Kojin Karatani, is overviewed. The author presents a thorough analysis of Karatani's philosophical project, demonstrates its closeness to Kant's critical philosophy. Lahiji reveals Karatani's groundbreaking definition of Will to Architecture and the use of architectural metaphors in Western philosophy.

Behind the Scenes of the Mind: an Attempt to Conceptualize the Types of Philosophizing Subjects (Research Article)

The article examines the metaphilosophical issue of the philosophizing subjects. The transcendental argument addresses the inquiry into what enables the variety of existing philosophizing practices. A conceptual model of philosophizing subjects is developed using the reconstructed Kantian model of the mind. Following this model, the article discusses marginal and mainstream types. The former comprises epigones and skeptics, while the latter encompasses dogmatic metaphysicians, scientific rationalists, relativists, and critical rationalists.