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

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Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.

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Description	1 online resource.
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Series	Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
	Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Summary	Purdy surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers deployed Renaissance terminology so that 'harmony' and 'unity' became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world.
Language	English.
Subject	BMBF-Statusseminar.
	Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- analys och tolkning.
	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. (OCoLC)fst00813564
	Architecture and philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00813568
	German literature. (OCoLC)fst00941797
	Philosophy, German. (OCoLC)fst01060969
	Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
	Architekturtheorie.
	Architektur.
	Ästhetik.
	Germany.
	Arkitektur och filosofi -- historia -- Tyskland -- 1700-talet.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: On the ruins of Babel Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011 9780801476761 (DLC) 2011012711
ISBN	9780801476969 electronic book
Standard No.	10.7591/9780801460050 doi

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