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Author Purdy, Daniel L.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Library, 2011.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014.
©2011.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 316 pages).
text file
Series Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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.
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Subject German literature -- History and criticism.
German literature.
Architecture and literature -- History.
Architecture and literature.
History.
Philosophy, German -- History.
Philosophy, German.
Architecture and philosophy -- Germany -- History.
Architecture and philosophy.
Germany.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9780801460050
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