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On the Ruins of Babel [electronic resource] : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / Daniel L. Purdy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 316 p. )Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460050
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 720.1 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2500 .P797 2011
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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