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On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought
Title:
On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought
Author:
Purdy, Daniel L.
ISBN:
9780801476761
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Publication Information:
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011.
Physical Description:
x, 316 p. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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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