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On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought
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On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought / Daniel L. Purdy.
ISBN
9780801476761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801476763 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Series
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Bibliography
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.
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