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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Autor principal: Purdy, Daniel L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940 > analys och tolkning.
Arkitektur och filosofi > historia > Tyskland > 1700-talet.
Ästhetik
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Philosophy, German
German literature
Architecture and philosophy
Architecture and literature
ARCHITECTURE > Reference.
ARCHITECTURE > Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE > Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Litterature allemande > Histoire et critique.
Architecture et litterature > Histoire.
Philosophie allemande > Histoire.
Architecture et philosophie > Allemagne > Histoire.
German literature > History and criticism.
Architecture and literature > History.
Philosophy, German > History.
Architecture and philosophy > Germany > History.
Deutschland
Germany
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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