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050 00 $aNA2500$b.P797 2011
082 00 $a720.1$222
100 1 $aPurdy, Daniel L.
245 10 $aOn the ruins of Babel :$barchitectural metaphor in German thought /$cDaniel L. Purdy.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press :$bCornell University Library,$c2011.
300 $ax, 316 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aArchitecture and philosophy$zGermany$xHistory.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, German$xHistory.
650 0 $aArchitecture and literature$xHistory.
650 0 $aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism.
830 0 $aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.)