Daniel Purdy - Böcker

The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a sciencethe 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 Joha...

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Writing more than a century before "Vogue, no less a figure than G.W.F. Hegel reviewed the fashion of his day and found it wanting because, in becoming outmoded so quickly, it drew attention away from the timeless beauty of the human form. An...

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Writing more than a century before Vogue, no less a figure than G. W. F. Hegel reviewed the fashion of his day and found it wanting because, in becoming outmoded so quickly, it drew attention away from the timeles beauty of the human form. For mor...

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In five distinct but interrelated arenas of our lives-the spiritual, the external (i.e., our broader communties), the relational, the internal (i.e., the personal), and the financial-we feel overworked yet unclear about our purpose. In F.I.R.E.S.,...

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Artfully descriptive short travel stories of Norway; including exploring the tranquil beauty of Norway's fjords and villages, the misadventures of an engineer becoming a hiking guide, and an exhilarating mountain expedition.

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and ev...

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and ev...

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and ev...

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and ev...

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Chinese Sympathies examines how EuropeansGerman-speaking writers and thinkers in particularidentified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and dee...

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Chinese Sympathies examines how EuropeansGerman-speaking writers and thinkers in particularidentified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and dee...

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New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated t...

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Groundbreaking essays highlighting Goethe's relevance to contemporary theoretical debates and Goethe criticism of recent decades. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is ded...

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New articles on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe's Faust. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the...

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New essays on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe and Idealism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the u...

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New essays on diverse topics from the Age of Goethe, with a special section on Goethe scholarship's role in the establishment of Germanistik. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North Ameri...

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A new crop of essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, with a special section providing innovative readings of Goethe's lyric poetry. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encoura...

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New essays on diverse topics from the Age of Goethe, with a special section on Goethe scholarship's role in the establishment of Germanistik.The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Go...

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A new crop of essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, with a special section providing innovative readings of Goethe's lyric poetry.The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging N...

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