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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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