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

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Purdy, Daniel L.
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Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Cornell University Library, 2011.
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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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9780801476761 pbk. : alk. paper
0801476763 pbk. : alk. paper
9780801476969 ebook
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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