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Purdy, Daniel L., author.

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

Publication Info.

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' & '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.
	Architecture et philosophie -- Allemagne -- Histoire.
	Philosophie allemande -- Histoire.
	Architecture et littérature -- Histoire.
	Littérature allemande -- Histoire et critique.
	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
	Germany https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCD3rcKcPDx6FHmjvrbd
	Architekturtheorie
	Architektur
	Ästhetik
	Deutschland
	Arkitektur och filosofi -- historia -- Tyskland -- 1700-talet.
Indexed Term	European history
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History
Other Form:	Print version: On the ruins of Babel Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011 9780801476761 (DLC) 2011012711
ISBN	9780801476761 pbk. : alk. paper
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