On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought /
Purdy 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 deployed Renaissance terminology so that 'harmony' & 'unity' became states of consciousn...
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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Table of 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.