On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought / Daniel L. Purdy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Purdy, Daniel L. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Series:	Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > analys och tolkning. BMBF-Statusseminar Architecture and philosophy > Germany > History. Philosophy, German > History. Architecture and literature > History. German literature > History and criticism. PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics. ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments. ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice. ARCHITECTURE > Reference. Architecture and literature Architecture and philosophy German literature Philosophy, German Architekturtheorie Architektur Ästhetik Arkitektur och filosofi > historia > Tyskland > 1700-talet. Germany Deutschland Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of 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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