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Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern Modernism: Ernst May in Breslau
Abstract
The internationally acclaimed architect and urban designer Ernst May (1886–1970) is generally considered an exemplary modernist, yet from 1919 to 1925 he practiced an anti-modern modernism in Silesia that calls into question conventional classifications of early modern architecture and has local, national, and transnational implications.1 Documented in numerous articles May wrote for Schlesisches Heim, May developed a pragmatic mix of modern and traditional architecture and urban planning idioms that was neither fully modern nor fully traditional. His approach was common among a certain group of European design professionals who matured between 1870 and 1910, during the rapid industrialization of the latter part of the nineteenth century when the benefits of new technology and modernization were called into question by a growing awareness of industrialization’s ill effects. On the one han
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Biography: general
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 800
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571255597
- ISBN
- 9780571255597
Paperback
Condition: New
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Herman Dooyeweerd (7 October 1894, Amsterdam – 12 February 1977, Amsterdam) was a professor of law and jurisprudence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and principal founder of Reformational philosophy with Dirk Vollenhoven, a significant development within the Neocalvinist (or Kuyperian) school of thought. Dooyeweerd made several contributions to philosophy and other academic disciplines concerning the nature of diversity and coherence in everyday experience, the transcendental conditions for theoretical thought, the relationship between religion, philosophy, and scientific theory, and an understanding of meaning, being, time and self. Dooyeweerd is most famous for his suite of fifteen aspects (or 'modalities', 'modal aspects', or 'modal law-spheres'), which are distinct ways in which reality exists, has meaning, is experienced, and occurs. This suite of aspects is finding application in practical analysis, research and teaching in suc