On the ruins of Babel
Subtitle: architectural metaphor in German thought
By: Daniel L. Purdy
Series: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought; Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell University Library
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780801476761
Subjects: Architecture and literature; Architecture and philosophy; German literature; History and criticism; German Philosophy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The decline of the classical orders; title: Science or art? : architecture's place within the disciplines; title: Architecture in Kant's thought : the metaphor's genealogy; title: How much architecture is in Kant's architectonic of pure reason?; title: The house of memory : architectural technologies of the self; title: Goethe's architectural epiphanies; title: The building in Bildung : Goethe, Palladio, and the architectural media; title: Goethe and the disappointing site : buildings that do not live up to their images; title: Gothic deconstruction : Hegel, Libeskind, and the avant-garde; title: Benjamin's mythic architecture.