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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.

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'Goethe Yearbook' 15 features an array of interdisciplinary essays, among them articles on Goethe and such topics as architecture, mineralogy, theatrical improvisation, and Ulrich von Hutten. Readers will also find two astute and erudite interpretations of key poems, 'Alexis und Dora' and 'Urworte. Orphisch,' as well as a compelling exploration of the legal, social, and economic issues pertaining to the question: 'Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did?' An interpretation of Goethe's 'Elective Affinities,' two essays on Schiller's plays, and an incisive analysis by Peter Uwe Hohendahl titled 'The New Man: Theories of Masculinity Around 1800' round out the volume. CONTRIBUTORS: EHRHARD BAHR, YASSER DERWICHE DJAZAERLY, ROBERT GERMANY, ALBERT E. GURGANUS, PETER UWE HOHENDAHL, JOCELYN HOLLAND, BORGE KRISTIANSEN, ELIZABETH POWERS, DANIEL PURDY, PETER J. SCHWARTZ, AND CHRISTOPH SCHWEITZER. Simon J. Richter is professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, and Daniel Purdy is associate professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is professor of German at Rutgers University.

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