LEADER 04719oam 22007214a 450 001 9910524683403321 005 20210915034837.0 010 $a0-8014-7696-8 010 $a0-8014-6005-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460050 035 $a(CKB)2550000000052437 035 $a(OCoLC)757669354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10496958 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000566129 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11377510 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566129 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10534483 035 $a(PQKB)11216573 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001517302 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28902 035 $a(DE-B1597)478341 035 $a(OCoLC)979880976 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460050 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138244 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10496958 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL762903 035 $a(OCoLC)922998245 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138244 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000052437 100 $a20110322d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn the Ruins of Babel$eArchitectural Metaphor in German Thought /$fDaniel L. Purdy 210 1$aIthaca, N.Y. :$cCornell University Library,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011. 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 225 0 $aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7676-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 $aThe eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science-the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural reasoning provided a method for critically examining consciousness. The architect, as philosophers liked to think of him, was obligated by the design and construction process to mediate between the abstract and the actual.In On the Ruins of Babel, Daniel Purdy traces this notion back to its wellspring. He surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers redeployed Renaissance terminology so that "harmony," "unity," "synthesis," "foundation," and "orderliness" became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world. Purdy's distinctly new interpretation of German theory reveals how metaphors constitute interior life as an architectural space to be designed, constructed, renovated, or demolished. He elucidates the close affinity between Hegel's Romantic aesthetic of space and Daniel Libeskind's deconstruction of monumental architecture in Berlin's Jewish Museum.Through a careful reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on architecture as myth, Purdy details how classical architecture shaped Benjamin's modernist interpretations of urban life, particularly his elaboration on Freud's archaeology of the unconscious. Benjamin's essays on dreams and architecture turn the individualist sensibility of the Enlightenment into a collective and mythic identification between humans and buildings. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aArchitecture and literature$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy, German$xHistory 606 $aArchitecture and philosophy$zGermany$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aArchitecture and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy, German$xHistory. 615 0$aArchitecture and philosophy$xHistory. 676 $a720.1 700 $aPurdy$b Daniel L$01200136 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524683403321 996 $aOn the Ruins of Babel$92772177 997 $aUNINA