On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

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

Author/creator	Purdy, Daniel L.
Other author/creator	Project Muse.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description	1 online resource (x, 316 pages ).
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Subject(s)	German literature--History and criticism. Architecture and literature--History. Philosophy, German--History. Architecture and philosophy--Germany --History.

Series	Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) ^A1054956
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Open Access Unrestricted online access star
Source of description	Description based on print version record.
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011012711
ISBN	9780801460050

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