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Author:
Purdy, Daniel L.
Title:
On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought / Daniel L. Purdy.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press :
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
x, 316 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Architecture and philosophy--Germany--History.
Philosophy, German--History.
Architecture and literature--Germany--History.
German literature--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The decline of the classical orders -- Science or art? : architecture's place within the disciplines -- Architecture in Kant's thought : the metaphor's genealogy -- How much architecture is in Kant's architectonic of pure reason? -- The house of memory : architectural technologies of the self -- Goethe's architectural epiphanies -- The building in Bildung : Goethe, Palladio, and the architectural media -- Goethe and the disappointing site : buildings that do not live up to their images -- Gothic deconstruction : Hegel, Libeskind, and the avant-garde -- Benjamin's mythic architecture.
Series:
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
ISBN:
0801476763 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801476761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)711864631
LCCN:
2011012711
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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