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On the Ruins of Babel Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / by Purdy, Daniel L.

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? …”
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On the ruins of Babel architectural metaphor in German thought / by Purdy, Daniel L.

Subjects: “…Architecture and philosophy Germany History.…”
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On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / by Purdy, Daniel L.

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? …”
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Germany's wild east constructing Poland as colonial space / by Kopp, Kristin Leigh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Germany's wild east -- Constructing German colonial space in the east : Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben as colonial novel -- The black Pole and racialized space in German inner colonial literature -- A German Dracula : Fontane's Effi Briest and the anxiety of a reverse-diffusional Slavic flood -- Post-colonial mappings : cartographic representations of lost colonial space in the interwar period -- Architectural Doppelgänger and post-colonial spatial claims in Fritz Lang's Nibelungen.…”
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