On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought.
Title:
On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought.
Author:
Purdy, Daniel.
ISBN:
9780801460050
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Series:
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Decline of the Classical Orders -- 2. Science or Art? Architecture's Place within the Disciplines -- 3. Architecture in Kant's Thought: The Metaphor's Genealogy -- 4. How Much Architecture Is in Kant's Architectonic of Pure Reason? -- 5. The House of Memory: Architectural Technologies of the Self -- 6. Goethe's Architectural Epiphanies -- 7. The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media -- 8. Goethe and the Disappointing Site: Buildings That Do Not Live Up to Their Images -- 9. Gothic Deconstruction: Hegel, Libeskind, and the Avant-Garde -- 10. Benjamin's Mythic Architecture -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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