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Purdy, Daniel L.

On the Ruins of Babel Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / Daniel L. Purdy. - 1 online resource (x, 316 p.) - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought . - Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

ISBN: 9780801460050

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
German literature--History and criticism.
Architecture and literature--History.
Philosophy, German--History.
Architecture and philosophy--History.--Germany

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: NA2500 / .P797 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 720.1