Purdy, Daniel L. <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801460050 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>German literature--History and criticism.<br/>Architecture and literature--History.<br/>Philosophy, German--History.<br/>Architecture and philosophy--History.--Germany
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2500  / .P797 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1