- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Series Statement
- Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
- Uniform Title
- On the ruins of Babel (Online)
- Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Alternative Title
- On the ruins of Babel (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2019725892
- OCLC
- ssj0000566129
- Author
Purdy, Daniel L.
- Title
On the ruins of Babel [electronic resource] : architectural metaphor in German thought / Daniel L. Purdy.
- Imprint
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Cornell University Library, 2011.
- Series
Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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- Other Form:
Print version: On the ruins of Babel Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2011 9780801476761 (DLC) 2011012711