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

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Purdy, Daniel L

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Project Muse [distributor]

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TextSeries: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library, 2011Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 316 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780801460050
9780801476761
9780801476969

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720.1 22

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NA2500 .P797 2011

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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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