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Author | : Daniel Leonhard Purdy |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801476968 |
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The 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.
Author | : Thomas Maurice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Babylon (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Maurice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : Babylon (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bodie Hodge |
Publisher | : New Leaf Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0890517150 |
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The Tower of Babel: The Cultural History of Our Ancestors reveals our shared ancestry as never before! Many are familiar with the Biblical account of Babel, but after the dispersal, there was a void beyond Biblical history until empires like Rome and Greece arose. Now, discover the truth of these people groups and their civilizations that spread across the earth and trace their roots back to Babel as well as to the sons and grandsons of Noah. Many of today's scholars write off what occurred at the Tower of Babel as mythology and deny that it was a historical event. Beginning with the Biblical accounts, author Bodie Hodge researched ancient texts, critical clues, and rare historic records to help solve the mystery of what became of the failed builders of Babel. For the purpose of defending the Bible, Hodge presents these and other vital historical facts surrounding this much-debated event. Teens and older can use this layman's reference for Biblical classes, ancient history, apologetics training, and to realize their own cultural connection to the Bible.
Author | : André Parrot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Babel, Tower of |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Claudius James Rich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Claudius James Rich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1816 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Claudius James Rich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : Babylon (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Samuel Noah Kramer |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1666750727 |
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Author | : Siraj Ahmed |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-12-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1503604047 |
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For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. In fact, each of philology's foundational innovations originally served British rule in India. Tracing an unacknowledged history that extends from British Orientalist Sir William Jones to Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said and beyond, Archaeology of Babel excavates the epistemic transformation that was engendered on a global scale by the colonial reconstruction of native languages, literatures, and law. In the process, it reveals the extent to which even postcolonial studies and European philosophy—not to mention discourses as disparate as Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu nationalism, and global environmentalism—are the progeny of colonial rule. Going further, it unearths the alternate concepts of language and literature that were lost along the way and issues its own call for humanists to reckon with the politics of the philological practices to which they now return.