On the Ruins of Babel : : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / / Daniel Leonhard Purdy.
The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science-the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their...
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Purdy, Daniel Leonhard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / Daniel Leonhard Purdy. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (328 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Decline of the Classical Orders -- 2. Science or Art? Architecture's Place within the Disciplines -- 3. Architecture in Kant's Thought: The Metaphor's Genealogy -- 4. How Much Architecture Is in Kant's Architectonic of Pure Reason? -- 5. The House of Memory: Architectural Technologies of the Self -- 6. Goethe's Architectural Epiphanies -- 7. The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media -- 8. Goethe and the Disappointing Site: Buildings That Do Not Live Up to Their Images -- 9. Gothic Deconstruction: Hegel, Libeskind, and the Avant-Garde -- 10. Benjamin's Mythic Architecture -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science-the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual.In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. He 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 redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum.Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Architecture and literature. Architecture and philosophy Germany History 18th century. German literature History and criticism. Philosophy, German History. Art History. Europe. History. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801476761 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801460050?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801460050 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801460050/original |
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