On the ruins of Babel : architectural metaphor in German thought /

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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 consciousn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purdy, Daniel L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Temas:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > analys och tolkning.
BMBF-Statusseminar
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
Architekturtheorie
Architektur
Ästhetik
Arkitektur och filosofi > historia > Tyskland > 1700-talet.
Germany
Deutschland
European history
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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