| Description |
1 online resource |
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Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought |
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Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world |
| Analysis |
European history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- analys och tolkning. sao |
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BMBF-Statusseminar gnd |
| Subject |
Architecture and philosophy -- Germany -- History
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Philosophy, German -- History
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Architecture and literature -- History
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German literature -- History and criticism
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PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
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Architecture and literature
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Architecture and philosophy
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German literature
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Philosophy, German
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Architekturtheorie
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Architektur
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Ästhetik
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Arkitektur och filosofi -- historia -- Tyskland -- 1700-talet.
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Germany
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Deutschland
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019725892 |
| ISBN |
9780801476969 |
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0801476968 |
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9780801460050 |
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0801460050 |
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